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HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND NOTES 



GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT 



Connecticut Historical Society 



ASSOCIATED INSTITUTIONS IN THE 
WADSWOETH ATHENEUM 



l^u.]3lisr)e(a lav i^e ©ocie^ 



1889 



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PRESS OF 

THE CASE, LOCKWOOD & ERAINARD CO., 

HARTFORD, CONN. 



I^OTICE. 



The matter hereinafter contained has been collected and pre- 
pared for publication, pursuant to a vote passed by the Connec- 
ticut Historical Society at its meeting of July 2, 1889. By 
the same vote, the Publication Committee (consisting of John 
"W. Stedman, Henry Barnard, and Forrest Morgan) was directed 
to perform the work ; with power to add other members. Said 
committee added S. W. Adams, F. B. Gay, and F. F. Starr to 
its own number. 

While it is true that even the most important of the docu- 
ments printed herewith were never before published collectively, 
it is no less true that some of them were never in print before. 
Of those which have before been printed, no attempt is here 
made to cite all the volumes and pamphlets wherein they may 
be found ; but, generally, the particular volume or pamphlet 
used in this compilation is mentioned. 

Much of the matter contained in the accompanying Notes has 
been gathered from the lips of aged persons, to whom recourse 
was had for that purpose. Much, also, was derived through 
careful search in original records. And much more would 
have been secured if the original records — most unfortunately 
for the searcher after tru.th — had not been lost. 

The difficult task of preparing a complete record of past and 
present officers and members of the Connecticut Historical 
Society has been accomplished by the efforts of Mr. Starr of 
this Committee. 

Hartford, December, 1889. 

S. W. A., 

For Committee. 



go]:^te:^ts. 



Page. 



II. 



III. 



IV. 



The Hartford Library Company. 

Act of Incorporation, 1799 7 

Act of Incorporation, 1800, 7 



The Hartford Youkg Men's Institute. 

Act of Incorporation 

Change of its Name, .... 

Its By-Laws, 1889, 

Its Rules and Regulations, 
Amendment of Hartford's Citj^ Charter, 
Extracts from First Annual Report, 
Life Members and Donors, 1839, . 
Life Members, 1886, .... 
Presidents of Young Men's Institute, 



The Connecticitt Historical Society. 

Act of Incorporation, 1825, .... 
Act Renewing its Charter, 1839, 
Extracts from the Will of Rev. Thomas Robbins, 
Resolve, Appropriating $1,000, 

Its By-Laws, 1889, 

Agreement between the Historical Society and Watkin 
son Library, 



The Wadsworth Athenaeum. 

Subscription to the Building Fund, 

List of Original Subscribers, . 

Wadsworth's Deed of Trust, . 

Deed of Transfer by the Trustees, 

Act Incorporating Wadsworth Athenaeum, 

Additional Subscriptions, etc.. 

Acts Amending its Charter, . 

Extracts from Wadsworth's Will, 

The Art Gallery, . 

The Gallery of Sculpture, 

By-Laws of the AtheuiSum, . 

Past Officers of the Athenaeum, 

ItJs Present Sharoholders, 



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42, 43 

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CONTENTS. 



VI. 



The Watkinson Library. 

Extracts from Mr. Watkinson's Will, . 

Act of Incorporation 

Amendment of its Charter, 

Statement of Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull, 

Its By-Laws, 1889 

Its Past OfHcers, 



The Connecticut Society of Natural History 
Act of Incorporation, 1845, .... 
Its OfHcers 



VII. The Art Society of Hartford. 
Act of Incorporation, 
Its Officers, .... 



VIII. Report op the Joint Committees, 

IX. Addenda. 

Members of the Hartford Library Company, 

Donors to the Young Men's Institute, . 

List of Lecturers for the Institute, 

The Hartford Arts Union, 

The Hartford Linnaean Botanical Society, 

X. Bibliography of the Historical Society, 



51 
58 
60 
60 
63 
64 



65 
66 



67 



69 



75 
76 
77 
80 
80 

81 



XL The Connecticut Historical Society. [Appendix.] 

Its Present Officers, 85 

Its Charter Members, 1825, 86 

Its Charter Members, 1839, 87 

Honorary Members, 88 

Corresponding Members, 91 

Its Past Officers 93 

Its Life Members, 96 

Former Members, 98 

Present Members, 110 



I. 

THE HARTFOED LIBRARY COMPANY. 



RESOLVE INCORPORATING THE HARTFORD LIBRARY COMPANY — 
PASSED OCTOBER, 1799. 

Resolved by this Assembly, That Jeremiah Wadsworth, Nathaa 
Strong, Chauncey Goodrich, William Imlay, John Caldwell, John 
Morgan, Thomas Y. Seymour, Abel Flint, George Goodwin, Nathan 
Haynes Whiting, Andrew Kingsbury, John Chenevard, Samuel Marsh, 
Barzilla Hudson, and George Goodwin, Joseph Hart, Daniel Wads- 
worth, William Lawrence, Jonathan Brace, Mason Fitch Cogswell, 
George Bull, Thomas Bull, Spencer Whiting, Selden Chapman, Dwell 
Morgan, Michael Olcott, Ezekiel Williams, Jr., Samuel Olcott, 
Nathaniel Terry, Jonathan Walter Edwards, Asa Hopkins, William 
Talcott, Peleg Sanford, Elisha Colt, Elnathan Smith, Jr., John 
Leffingwell, Jacob Ogden, Jesse Dean, Chauncey Gleason, and Theo- 
dore Dwight, and such other persons as shall hereafter be admitted 
members of said company, be, and they are hereby, instituted a cor- 
poration by the name of "The Hartford Library Company," and by 
that name shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, and they and 
their successors shall have perpetual succession, and may purchase and 
hold lands and tenements in their corporate capacity of the value of 
two thousand dollars, and may increase their stock in books to the 
amount and value of ten thousand dollars, and shall also have power 
to make all such by-laws for the protection of their company propert}^ 
and the managing the concerns of said company, as fchall be found 
necessary, not contrary to the laws of this state. 

RESOLVE INCORPORATING THE HARTFORD LIBRARY COMPANY — 
PASSED OCTOBER, 1800. 

Sec. 1. Resolved by this Assembly, That Jeremiah Wadsworth, 
Nathan Strong, Chauncey Goodrich, William Imlay, John Caldwell, 
John Morgan, Thomas Y. Seymour, Abel Flint, George Goodwin, 
Nathan Haynes Whiting, Andrew Kingsbury, John Chenevard, Samuel 
Marsh, Barzilla Hudson, and George Goodwin, Joseph Hart, Daniel 
Wadsworth, William Lawrence, Jonathan Brace, Mason Fitch Cogs- 
well, George Bull, Thomas Bull, Spencer Whiting, Selden Chapman, 
Dwell Morgan, Michael Olcott, Ezekiel Williams, Jr., Samuel Olcott, 
Nathaniel Terry, Joni\than Walter Edwards, Asa Hopkins, William 
Talcott, Peleg Sanford, Elisha Colt, Elnathan Smith. Jr., Jolin 
Leffingwell, Jacob Ogden, Jesse Dean, Chauncey Gleason, and Theo- 
dore Dwight, and sucU other persons as shall hereafter be admitted 



8 THE HARTFORD LIBRARY COMPANY. 

members of tbe corporation hereby erected, and tbeir successors and 
assigns, be, and tbey are hereby, ordained, constituted, and declared 
to be one body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the 
name of "The Hartford Library Company," and by that name they 
and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession, and 
shall and may by the same name be persons capable in law to sue and 
be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, 
defend and be defended in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner 
of actions, suits, complaints, matters, and causes whatsoever, and to 
purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, and retain, to them and tlieir suc- 
cessors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, rents, goods, chattels, and 
effects of any kind or nature soever, provided the annual value of such 
real and personal estate s-hall not at any time exceed two thousand dol- 
lars exclusive of the books and the annual payments of the members 
of said company hereinafter mentioned, and also to make, have, and 
use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew at pleasure, 
and to execute, all and singular, tho?e acts, matters, and things which 
to them shall or may appertain, subject to the rules, limitations, and 
restrictions hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 2. The stock of said company shall consist of the property 
which nuw doth or at any time hereafter shall belong to said company, 
and shall be dividetl into such shares as by the by-laws of said com- 
pany shall be ordained and established, provided that the whole 
amount of said company's stock shall not at any time exceed the sum 
of twenty thousand dollars. 

Sec. 3. The proprietor or proprietors of each share in said stock 
shall pay annually into the treasury of said company four dollars in 
equal quarterly payments, tbe tirst of which quarterly payments shall 
be made on the first day of January next. 

Sec. 4. There shall be a meeting of the company in the city of 
Hartford, on the tirst Monday of July annually, which may be 
adjourned from time to time as may be deemed expedient. All 
officers named in this resolve to be chosen by said company shall be 
members of the company, and shall be chosen at such annual meeting 
by ballot, and a majority of votes regularly given in shall decide the 
choice, and in case it shall happen that an election of said officers shall 
not be made on the day required by this resolve, it shall be lawful for 
said company to meet after three days' notice duly given, and pro- 
ceed to the choice of said officers in the same manner as is hereinbefore 
provided, and all meetings of said company shall be holden in the city 
of Hartford. 

Sec. 5. The company at their annual meeting shall choose a 
secretary, a president, a vice president, seven persons to be a committee 
of trustees, and a treasurer, who shall continue in office until others 
are chosen to fill their places, unless displaced in the manner herein- 
after provided, and if the company shall hereafter increa.'-e the com- 
mittee of trustees may also be increased, but shall not at any time 
exceed twelve persons exclusive of the president and vice-president. 

Sec. 6. The secretary shall record all the votes and proceedings of 
the company and of the committee of trustees. In case of the absence 
of the secretary, the committee of trustees may appoint a secretary 
jjro ti'inpore. 

Sec. 7. The president shall, ex officio, be a member of the committee 
of trustees, and shall preside, when present, at all meetings of the com- 
pany and of the committee of trustees, but shall have no vote in any 
meeting of the company or of the committee of trustees except in case 



THE HAETFORD LIBEARY COMPANY. " 9 

of an equal division. In the absence of the president, the vice-presi- 
dent shall be president pro tempore, and in absence of the president and 
vice-president, the senior member of the committee of trustees present 
shall be president pro tempore. All orders drawn upon the treasurer 
shall be signed by the president, or in his absence by the president pro 
tempore. By order of the committee of trustees, the president, or in 
his absence the vice president, may call special meetings of the com- 
pany, giving reasonable notice of the time and place of such meetings. 

Sec. 8. The vice president shall, ex officio, be a member of the com- 
mittee of trustees, and in the absence of the president s-hall exerci-e all 
the powers heretofore given to the president. 

Sec. 9. The committee of trustees shall have a general superin- 
tendence of the library; direct where and in what manner it shall be 
kept, provided the place where said library be kept be in the city of 
Hartford; grant such compensations as they shall judge necessary, 
but no compensation shall at any time be granted to the president, 
vice president, or committee of trustees; appoint a librarian, call him 
to account, and displace him whenever they see cause; adjust all 
accounts, and exhibit the same once in every year to the company; 
direct the president to sign all ordeis drawn by them on the treasurer; 
select and purchase books for the use of the company, and regulate 
from time to time the manner, and once in three months prescribe the 
terms, of admitting persons to be members of the company. The com- 
mittee of trustees shall have power to call the treasurer to account, to 
displace him if they see cause, and in case of a vacancy in the office, 
by removal or other cause, to appoint a treasurer who shall hold his 
otHce until a treasurer be chosen by the company. The committee of 
trustees shall have the sole power of making bylaws for regulating the 
concerns of the company, and to inflict fines, penalties, and forfeitures 
for the breach of such by-laws; but no by-law shall be of any force 
until it has been engrossed and posted up fourteen days in the library 
room. Provided, that no by-law shall be repugnant to the laws of this 
state, and that no fine, penalty, or forfeiture shall exceed a share in 
said company, or the value thereof. Any two of the committee of 
trustees may request the president, or in his absence the vice-president, 
to summon a meeting of the company, and in case of refusal or neglect 
upon such application, a majority of the committee of trustees shall 
have power to summon a meeting of the company, giving reasonable 
notice of the time and place of such meeting. 

Sec. 10. The treasurer shall have charge of all the moneys which 
belong to the company; shall accept and pay all orders drawn upon 
him by the president by order of the committee of trustees; shall 
execute a bond to the company, if required by the committee of 
trustees, for the faithful performance of his duty; shall annually, and 
oftener if thereto required by the committee of trustees, account with 
them for all moneys so received and paid out; and shall from time to 
time obey such orders and directions as he shall receive from the com- 
mittee of trustees. 

Sec. 11. No person shall become a member of the company by pur- 
chase without the consent and approbation of the committee of 
trustees. 

Sec. 13. Every person holding a share in the company's stock shall 
be entitled to one vote in all meetings of the company, but no person 
shall be entitled to more than one vote in any such meeting for any 
greater number of shares which he may hold. 



10 ' THE HARTFORD LIBRARY COMPANY. 

Sec. 13. All questions in all meetings of the company, and in all 
meetings of the committee of trustees, shall be decided by a majority 
of votes regularly given in, except in those cases otherwise provided 
for in this resolve. 

Sec. 14. No alteration shall be made in the third paragraph of this 
resolve without the unanimous consent of the members of the coin 
pany present in meeting; and no question relative to any such altera- 
tion shall be tried or agitated at any other than the annual meeting; 
provided, however, that when the value of the books belonging to tlie 
company shall amount to ten thousand dollars, the committee of 
trustees may lessen the annual payment from each member to two 
dollars. 

Sec. 15. The present officers of the company shall continue in 
office until otiiers are chosen to supply their places, and the present 
bylaws of the company shall continue in force until they are repealed 
by the committee of trustees; provided, nevertheless, that if this act, 
or any of the provisions in this act contained, shall be found incon- 
venient or in any respect inadequate, the same may be altered or 
revoked by the general assembly. 

Provided always, that nothing herein shall authorize said corpora- 
tion to carry on merchandise by buying and selling books or other 
articles, etc. ; that said corporation by entering into and carrying on 
merchandise, shall lose and forfeit all the rights, powers, and privi- 
leges herein granted; and provided also, that any former acts or 
resolves, incorporating said library company, be, and the same are 
hereby, repealed. 

Note. — The foregoing Resolves are copied from pages 718-731, Vol. I, 
of the Private Laws of this State, edition of 1837. Some slight changes 
in punctuation and spelling are introduced. 

From an account given by William I. Fletcher (see Memorial Hist, 
of Hartford Co., Vol. I, p. 545), it appears that a Public Library Com- 
pany was organized in Hartford in 1774. It was at first known as the 
Librarian Company, but subsequently assumed the title of The Hart- 
ford Library Company. It is presumed that this was the same institu- 
tion which, in 1799, was incorporated under the same name. 

There are no data at hand from which a list of the officers of the 
Hartford Librarj- Co. can be compiled; nor is it known who was its 
latest President, Secretary, or Librarian. It is understood that the 
library had no permanent place of abode; its migrations having brought 
it, at times, into a building in Temple street ; on the north corner of 
Main and Pearl streets ; on the corner of Main street and Central row ; 
and into the old State House. Perhaps it was lastly in the variety 
store of Charles Hosmer, where the Waverly building now is. 

The oldest catalogue now extant is in manuscript, under date of 
179) ; and is in the possession of the Hartford Library Association. 
Catalogues were printed in 1813, 1818, and 1838. The whole number 
of volumes is not stated in the catalogue of 1838 ; but the highest num- 



THE HARTFORD LIBRARY COMPANY. 11 

ber given to any volume is 3,312 ; and, presumably, this v^as, at most, 
as many as the Library then contained. 

It is not stated how many, nor who, the shareholders were, nor 
whether the full amount of the capital stock ($20,000) had ever been 
subscribed for. "Extracts from the By-Laws" were published in the 
catalogue of 1828, but they do not state the number of shares into 
which the capital stock was divided. 

It is not known that more than one person is living (Thomas M. 
Day), who was a shareholder in the Hartford Library Company. 

S. W. A. 



II. 

THE HARTFORD YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE. 



ACT OF INCORPORATION. 

At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut holden at Hartford, 
in said State, on the jirst Wednesday of May, in the year of our Lord 
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine : 

Whereas, Henry Barnard, 2d, George G. Spencer, William M. 
Durand, Gustavus F. Davis, William N. Matson, Erastus Collins, 
Junius S. Morgan. James D. Willard, Amariah Storrs, Edwards W. 
Coleman, Alfred Gill, and others, have associated together for the pur- 
pose of intellectual and moral improvement, therefore 

Resolved by this Assembly, That the aforesaid individuals, their as- 
sociates and successors, be, and hereby are, constituted a body corpo- 
rate and politic by the name of the Hartford Young Men's Insti- 
tute, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be capa- 
ble in law to purchase, receive, hold, and convey all kinds of property, 
the annual income of which shall not exceed Six Thousand Dollars; 
to sue and be sued, defend and be defended in all courts and places 
whatsoever; may have a common Seal, and may change and alter the 
same at pleasure; may elect a President, and such other Officers and 
Agents as they may find necessary and convenient, and make and carry 
into effect such By-Laws and regulations as they may deem necessary 
to promote and secure the objects of the Corporation. 

The tirst meetinir of the Institute shall be holden on i\\e first Tuesday 
of June, at such place as may be designated by a majority of the per- 
sons named above, by notice in one or more newspapers printed in 
Plartford. 

Provided always, that this Act may be altered, amended, or repealed 
at the pleasure of the General Assembly. 

STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 

Secretary's Office, ) 
May 37th, A. D. 1839. j 
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of Record in this otflce. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereto affixed the Seal of the State, and 
signed my name, at the date as above. 

ROYAL R HINMAN, Secretary. 

Note. — The above Act of Incorporation, and the following extracts 
from the record of the Annual Meeting of the Hartford Young Men's 
Institute of 1839, as also the List of Donors and Life Members — are 
taken from the First Annual Report of the Executive Committee of 



THE HAETFORD YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE. 13 

that institution, published in 1839. Copies of this report are quite 
scarce. It will be seen from the extracts that the Institute became the 
owner of the volumes of the (defunct?) Hartford Library Company in 
1839. Also, that before its incorporation the " Young Men's Institute" 
existed as a voluntary association (organized in 1838); and the char- 
tered " Hartford Young Men's Institute" became its successor. It is 
said that the Hon. Henry Barnard was the originator of the whole 
enterprise. 

The first catalogue of the Institute, published in 1839, showed that 
the library contained 5,620 volumes. The same library now contains 
about 40,000 volumes. S. W. A. 

CHANGING NAME OF THE HAKTFORD YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE, AND 
AMENDING THE CHARTER THEREOF. 

Resolved by tliis Assembly: Section 1. That the name of The 
Hartford Young Men's Institute be and the same is hereby changed so 
that the corporation shall hereafter be entitled The Hartford Library 
Association. No right or obligation of said corporation shall be 
impaired thereby. 

Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have power to place the funds and 
property which it may at any time own, other than books and furni- 
ture, in the hands of such trustees as the said corporation may select, 
for such length of time and upon such terms and conditions and for 
such purposes as shall seem to said corporation to be desirable for the 
greater and more permanent security of said funds and property and 
the better promotion of the objects of said corporation, and the princi- 
pal of said funds and property shall not be holden for any debt of said 
corporation incurred subsequently to the establishment of such trust 
and during the continuance thereof; and the income of said funds and 
property for any year shall not be liable to be holden for any debt of 
said corporation, except such debts as shall be incurred during such 
year: provided, hown-er, that nothing herein contained shall, in any 
way, affect the liability of said funds and property to be holden for 
any just debt of said corporation incurred prior to the establishment 
of such trust. 

Approved, March 26, 1878. {Special Acts, 1878, p. 104.] 

BY-LAWS, 1889. 

Article I. Any person above fourteen years of age may become a 
member of this corporation by subscribing to the charter and by laws. 
Each member shall pay annually, in advance, a mepibership fee of 
three dollars, and shall exercise none of the rights of membership so 
long as the fee is unpaid. Any member who shall pay fifty dollars at 
any one time shall be known as a life member and shall be exempt 
from the payment of the annual fee above prescribed. 

Article II. The officers of this corporation shall be a President, two 
Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, 
and a Treasurer, all of whom shall be chosen by ballot at each annual 
meeting. Any person who shall have held any of the above offices, 
except the offices of Recordmg Secretary and Treasurer, for two years, 
shall be ineligible for the same office, but may be elected to hold any 
other office 

Article III. Th^e Ifresident shall preside at the meetings of the cor 



14 THE HARTFOED YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE. 

poration, preserve order therein, and in case of an equal division of 
tlie members on any question shall give a casting vote. In the absence 
of the President, the senior Vice-President present shall preside and 
perform all the duties of that olfice. 

Article IV. The Corresponding Secretarj' shall, under the direction 
of tlie Board of Directors, conduct the correspondence of the 
corporation. 

Article V. The Recording Secretary shall keep an accurate record 
of the transactions of tbe corporation. 

Article VI. The Treasurer shall receive all dues and donations in 
money. He shall keep an accurate account of the financial concerns of 
the corporation, an abstract of which he shall exhibit at each annual 
meeting; and in his disbursements of money, he shall be under the 
direction of the Board of Directors. He shall also give bonds, with 
sureties, to the satisfaction of the Board of Directors, to an amount 
not less that one thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his 
duties. 

Article VII. The affairs of this corporation shall be managed by a 
Board of Directors, of which the ofhcers mentioned in Article II shall 
be ex officio members. Three directors shall be chosen by ballot at 
each annual meeting to hold office for two years. The board shall 
have power to fill all vacancies until the next annual meeting. Meet- 
ings of the directors may be called at any time by either the President 
or Recording Secretary. At such meeting any number not less than 
three shall constitute a quorum for business. 

Article VIII. An annual meeting shall be holden on the first Tues- 
day of June, and quarterly meetings on the first Tuesdays in Septem- 
ber, December, and March of each year. At all annual meetings the 
polls shall be open to receive ballots for officers and directors from 10 
o'clock A. M. to 5 o'clock r. m. , without intermission; and immedi- 
ately after the closing of the polls the ballots shall be counted, and the 
result of the election declared. On the evening of the day preceding 
the day of the annual meeting, there shall he a meeting holden for the 
purpose of hearing and acting upon the annual reports of the Board of 
Directors and of the Treasurer, which repoits shall be presented and 
read at said evening meeting, and at said meeting two tellers shall he 
elected to count the ballots which shall be cast at the annual meeting 
on the ensuing day. Special meetings may be Cidled at any time by 
order of the Board of Directors. At least live days' warning of every 
special meeting shall be given bj'' a notice so posted in the library that 
it may be read by members coming to draw or return books. 

Article IX. Any member, for disorderly or immoral conduct, or 
for a violation of rules, ma_y be expelled by the concurring vote of a 
majority of the Board of Directors, from which decision an appeal 
shall be allowed to the next quarterly meeting, whose decision shall be 
final. 

Article X. These by-laws may be amended at any meeting of mem- 
bers, provided warning of an intention to propose an amendment to 
the by-laws is given by a notice posted as required in Article VIII. 

KULES AND REGULATIONS. — RULES OF THE LIBRARY. 

I. It shall be the duty of the librarian to attend at the rooms of the 
Association, during the hours in which the same shall be open, to take 
charge of the Library and Reading-room, and other property of the 
Association. He shall observe the instructions which may be given 



THE HARTFORD YOUNG MEN's INSTITUTE. 15 

him by tlie Board of Directors, and take care that all the regulations 
relating- to thu Library and Reading roona are strictly observed. 

II. Every member of the Association who shall have paid all sums 
due from him to the Association, and made good all damage and loss 
which he may have occasioned (and any person on paying $3 per 
annum or $2 semi-annually in advance to the Librarian) shall be en- 
titled to all the privileges of the Library and Reading-room. Any per- 
son on paying |3 shall be entitled during one year to use the Reading- 
rtjom, and to draw from the Library one book at a time. 

III. The Library shall be open for the delivery and receipt of 
books, from 9 o'clock a. m. to 8 o'clock p. m. The Reading-room shall 
be open from 9 o'clock a. m. to 9 80 p. m. 

IV. No book shall be taken from the Library without the consent 
of the Librarian; and until the same shall be charged to the account 
of the member receiving it. 

V. Every per.son will be held responsible for books charged to him, 
and it shall be his duty to see that the charge of such books is checked 
when the same are returned. 

VI. Books drawn from the Libniry may be retained for two weeks 
and no longer, unless renewed for two weeks at the end of that time. 
Any person who shall retain books longer than two weeks, unless 
renewed, and in that case longer than four weeks, shall forfeit and pay 
to the Librarian for every day of the first week of such detention two 
cents per volume, and for every day of each succeeding week the for- 
feiture shall be four cents per volume. 

VII. Such new books added to the Library the current year as the 
Library Committee may designate, shall be retained by members only 
one week, and are not renewable; if not returned at the proper lime 
they shall be liable to a tine of four cents per day. 

VIII. Any person who shall injure, deface, or fail to return any 
book belonging to the Library, shall forfeit and pay such sums as may 
be assessed by the Librarian, with tlie liberty of an appeal to the Board 
of Directors, for such default or damage; and if the work lost or 
injured be one of a set, he shall pay the full value of said set, and may 
then receive the remaining volumes as his property. 

IX. Such books as may from time to time be specially designated 
by the Board of Directors shall not be taken from the Library, except 
by permission, and on such conditions as they may prescribe. 

X. The Librarian shall allow no person to enter the alcoves without 
written permission from the Librar}'^ Committee. 

XL Books to be transferred must be returned to the Library. 

XII. Books will be reserved in the order of application, and 
charged to the accounts of members at the date of such reservation; 
and if the necessary postage be prepaid, the Librarian will notify mem- 
bers when such books are ready for delivery. 

RULES OF THE READING-KOOM. 

I. Members of the Association only are entitled to the use of the 
Reading-room. 

II. No person shall occupy a seat in front of any newspaper except 
for the purpose of reading the same. 

III. The magazines and reviews must be returned to their proper 
compartments by the persons using them. 

IV. All loud conversation is strictly prohibited. 

V. All damages shall be made good by immediate payment or 
replacement of the articles injured. 



16 THE HARTFORD YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE. 

VI. The removal of any periodical, pamphlet, or book of reference 
from the Reading room, except by written permission of the Board of 
Directors, is strictly prohibited. 

VII. The Superintendent has full authority to enforce the above 
rules, and preserve order in the rooms. — [From 51. si Annual Report of 
the Executive Committee of the Hartford Library Association.] 

AMENDING THE CHARTER OP THE CITY OF HARTFORD. 

Resolved by this Assembly: That the city of Hartford be, and it 
hereby is, authorized and empowered to appropriate by concurrent 
vote of the court of common council of said city, and to expend 
annually, a sum not exceeding one-fifth of one mill upon the grand 
list of said city last made and perfected, for the purpose of supporting 
and maintaining a free public library and art gallery, with their appur- 
tenances, and of furnishing needed accommodations therefor. 

Approved March 14, 1883. — [.'Special Acts, 1883, p. 726.] 

[Extracts from the First Annual Report. ~\ 

ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 4, 1839. 

The second annual meeting of the Young Men's Institute was held 
at Gilman's Hall this evening at half-past 7 o'clock. 

The President subn)itted the First Annual Report of the Executive 
Committee, and the Treasurer an account of the finances of the Insti- 
tute, which were severally accepted, and ordered to be printed. 

The President notified the meeting that the Executive Committee, 
in pursuance of the instructions of the Institute, at their first quarterly 
meeting, had procured from the General Assembly an act of incor- 
poration under the name of the "Hartford Young Men's Institute." 
The act was read, and a resolution passed and signed, transferring all 
the property, interest, and rights belonging to the Young Men's Insti- 
tute, to the Hartford Young Men's Institute. 

The meeting was then organized as the Hartford Young Men's Insti- 
tute, with Henry Barnard, 2d, as Chairman, and Lorenzo Hamilton, 
Secretary. 

The act of incorporation was accepted, and a committee consisting 
of George G. Spencer, William N. Matson, and C. L. Kelsey, ap- 
pointed, who reported the former Constitution of the Institute, with 
some modifications, as the By-Laws for the future government of the 
corporation. 

The following officers were then chosen for the year ensuing : 

Henry Barnard, 2d, President. 

George G. Spencer, 1st Vice-President. 

Junius S. Morgan, 2d 

William N. Matson, Corresponding Secretary. 

Alfred Gill, Recording Secretary. 

Erastus Collins, Treasurer. 

Edward W. Coleman, 1st Director. 

Lorenzo Hamilton, 2d " 

Elijah H. Owen, 3d " 

James D. Willard, 4th 

Amariah Storrs, 5th " 



THE HARTFORD YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE, 



17 



The attention of the Committee was early and perseveringly directed 
to the establishment of a library in some measure adequate to meet the 
wants of the Institution and of the city. A considerable amount of 
means was placed at their disposal by the liberal subscriptions of the 
friends of the Institute and life members, but it was evident tbat unless 
this could be expended in the purchase of books not already in the 
reach of the members, in existing libraries, the main object could not 
be secured. Accordingly arrangements were effected with the sliare- 
holders of the Hartford Library Company, by which their valuable 
collection of books, amounting to more than 3,000 volumes, was trans- 
ferred to the executive committee in trust for the Institute: This trans- 
fer is not yet complete, although nothing is wanting on the part of the 
proprietors of the library to make it so, as soon as the Institute by or- 
ganizing under the act of incorporation, shall be capable of receiving 
the same. This arrangement is alike valuable to the members of the 
Institute and the Library Company, and enlarges the selection of both, 
without diminishing the privileges of either. As soon as this arrange- 
ment was effected, and before any portion of our funds were expended, 
in order that they might be invested to the best advantage, the friends 
of the Institute were invited to send in such contributions in books as 
they were disposed to make. In compliance with this application, 
more than 800 volumes were added to the library. Since then, pur- 
chases to the amount of more than 1,500 volumes have been made, so 
that the aggregate number of volumes now in the possession of the In- 
stitute exceeds 5,600. 



LIFE MEMBERS AND DONORS, 1889. 



Thomas S. Williams, 
Daniel Wadsworth, 
William H. Imlay, 
Thomas K. Brace, 
Joseph Trumbull, 
Thomas Smith, 
John Warburton, . 
Seth Terry, . 
William A. Ward, 
Charles Davies, 
Edmund G. Howe, 
T. M. Allyn, 
A. M. Collins, 
W. L. Collins, 
H. Huntington, Jr., 
Roland Mather, 
Ezra Clark, Jr., . 
Ezra White, Jr., . 
Elisha Colt, . 
Joseph Morgan, . 
G. C. Collins, 
Samuel Williams, . 
Dudley Buck, 
A. A. Pomeroy, . 
James G. Bolles, . 
Christopher C. Lyman, 
E. Fessenden, 





$300 


John Olmsted, 


. $25 




300 


Erastus Smith, 


. 25 




250 


Denison Morgan, . 


. 25 




100 


Roderick Terry, . 


. 25 




100 


William S. Crane, 


. 25 




100 


John Butler, . 


. 25 




50 


David Watkinson, 


. 25 




50 


D. F. Robinson, . 


. 25 




50 


H. Barnard, 2d, . 


. 25 




50 


Gordis Spalding, . 


. 25 




25 


Amariah Storrs, . 


. 25 




25 


William W. Ellsworth, 


. 25 




25 


Ellery Hills, . 


. 25 




25 


George Beach, 


. 25 




25 


John L. Bunce, 


. 25 




25 


J. S. Morgan, 


. 25 




25 


Daniel Burgess, 


. 25 




25 


Robert Watkinson, 


. 25 




25 


S. W. Goodridge, . 


. 25 




25 


Silas Andrus, 


. 25 




25 


James M. Bunce, . 


. 25 




25 


George Burgess, . 


. 25 




25 


0. E. Daggett, 


. 25 




25 


Lewis Weld. . 


. 25 




25 


William T. Lee, . 


. 25 




25 


A. W. Butler, 


. 25 




25 


Daniel Buck, 


. 25 



18 



THE HAETFORD YOUNG MEN's INSTITUTE. 



George Putnam, 






. $25 


Ebenezer Flower, . 


. $25 


H. B. Cliaflfee, 






25 


Elisba Peck, . 


. 25 


H. L. Miller, 






25 


Francis Parsons, . 


25 


Alfred Gill, . 






25 


R. G. Drake, 


25 


George Beach, Jr. 






25 


Joel Hawes, . 


25 


John H. Webb, 






25 


Horace Bushnell, . 


25 


Erastus Collins, 






25 


George G. Spencer, 


25 


Charles Sigourney 






25 


Leonard Bacon, 


15 


Lynde Olmsted, 






25 


Samuel Tudor, 


10 


Alfred Smith, 






25 


E. C. Stanton, 


10 


Hezekiah King, 






25 


Job Allyn, . 


8 


T. H. Gallaudet, 






25 


James M. Goodwin, 


12.50 




Vols. 




Vols. 


Calvin Spencer, ... 40 


Joel Hawes, . 


Itj 


W. W. Turner, . 




8 


D. D. Barnard, . 




T. H. Gallaudet, . 




8 


James M. Bunce, . 




C. L. Kelsey, 




8 


Julius D. Hayden, 




W. W. Ellsworth, 




73 


Thomas Day, 


21 


Spalding & Storrs, 




51 


John L. Boswell, . 




Theodore Dwight, 




12 


John H. Webb, . 


50 


David R. Hutchinson, 




2 


David Watkinson, 


45 


Samuel Tudor, 




18 


Ezra Clark, . 


10 


Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, 




10 


Andrus. Judd & Franklin, 


50 


Roderick White, . 




20 


Amariah Brigham, 


50 


Belknap & Hamersley, 




53 


E. Smith, 


100 


Robert Turnbull, . 




9 


Henry Barnard, 2d, 


100 


Samuel Coit, . 




3 


Henry Hudson, Edinburgh 


Ency- 


George G. Spencer, 




15 


clopedia. 




Royal H. Hiuman, 




4 


Daniel Burgess, Niles' Register, 


Alfred Smith, 




48 


complete. 




Henry Holmes, 






18 







LIST OP LIFE MEMBERS, 1886. 



Abbott, Mrs. Anna O. 
Bacon, Leonard H. 
Bailey, Henry M. 
Barbour, Lucius A. 
Barnard, Henry 
Beach, George 
Bissell, George P. 
Brainard, Charles H. 
Breed, Joseph 
Bryant, Edwin W. 
Buck, Henry R. 
Burnham, George S. 
Butler, Albert L. 
Case, Newton 
Cheney, Frank W. 
Cheney, Knight D. 
Childs, Charles R. 
Chittenden, Henry 



Christ Church, Rector of 
Church, Abner 
Clark, David 
Clark, Ezra 
Colt, Samuel 
Collins, Atwood 
Collins, Charles 
Conklin, Hamilton W. 
Coxe, Arthur C. 
Crane, Cephas B. 
Davies, Charles 
Davis, G. Pierrepont 
Day, John C. 
Day, Thomas M. 
Eliot, Samuel 
Ely, R. S. and W. D. 
Fessenden, Edson 
Gage, William L. 



THE HARTFORD YOUNG MEN S INSTITUTE. 



19 



Geer, Elihu 
Gill, Alfred 
Goodwin, H. L. 
Gould, Rev. Geo. H. 
Hatch, George E. 
Hollister, Arthur N. 
Hollister, Nelson 
Howard, James L. 
Howe, Daniel R. 
Hunt, Dr. E. K. 
Huntington, Jos. S. 
Jewell, Charles A. 
Jewell, Plin}' 
Lyman, Theodore 
Martin, Thomas 
Mather, Roland 
Mills, Lawrence H. 
Morgan, Junius S. 
Nichols, James 
Northam, Charles H. 
Olmsted, Albert H. 
Olmsted, F. Law 
Parker, E. P. 
Parsons, E. W. 
Parsons, John C. 
Payne, Brigham 
Peck, Cornelia 
Perkins, Charles E. 
Perkins, Edward C. 



Perkins, Mrs. E. H. 
Perkins, Henry A. 
Polk, Mrs. E. N. B. 
Pratt, Henry S. 
Robbins, Philemon F. 
Roberts, Albert W. 
Roberts, Edward E. 
Roberts, George 
Robinson, Eliza T. 
Robinson, Henrj^ C. 
Robinson, jMary A. 
Seymour, Charles 
Shipman, Nathaniel 
Simonson, L. 
Stoddard, H. Hudson 
Strong, Maria E. 
Taylor, Samuel 
Terry, Eliphalet 
Turner, Wm. W. 
Twichell, Joseph H. 
Tyler. Edwin S. 
Ward, Wm. P. 
Way, Samuel L. 
Welch, Archibald H. 
Welles, Edward W. 
Wheaton, Noah 
White, Ezra, Jr. 
Winship, Joseph 
Woodward, Joseph G. 



PRESIDENTS OF THE HARTFORD YOUNG MEN S INSTITUTE. 



Henry Barnard, 2d, 1838-40 

William N. Matson, 1840-41 

Geo. G. Spencer (resgd.), 1841-42 

John W. Seymour, 1842-43 

Roland Mather, 1843-44 

James Dixon, 1844-45 

E. K. Hunt, 1845-47 

Oliver D. Cooke, 1847-49 

Ezra Clark, Jr., 1849-51 

Joseph S. Huntington, 1851-53 

Frank H. Terry, 1853-54 

Geo. P. Bissell, 1854-56 

Nathaniel Shipman, 1856-57 

Henry C. Robinson, 1857-58 

Frank W. Cheney, 1858-59 

Chas. E. Perkins, 1859-60 

Wm. H. D. Callender, 1860-62 
Frank W. Cheney (resgd.), 1862-63 

Joseph G. Woodward, 1862-63 



William Hamersley, 1863-64 

Nathaniel Shipman, 1864:-65 

William Hamersley, 1865-67 

John S. Robinson, 1867-69 

George M. Coit, 1869-70 

George F. Hills, 1870-71 
Edwin W. Bryant (resgd.), 1871-72 

George F. Hills, 1871-72 

Joseph Breed, 1872-73 

Henry L. Bunce (resgd.), 1873-74 

Joseph G. Woodward, 1873-75 

John C. Day, 1875-77 

Charles H. Clark, 1877-79 

John R. Redfield, 1879-80 

Albert L. Butler, 1880-82 

Wm. Waldo Hyde, 1882-84 

Samuel O. Prentice, 1884-86 

Wm. G. Abbot, 1886-88 

Edward D. Robbins, 1888- 



Note. — The List (of 1886) of Life Members is the latest one printed. 
The names of such as had deceased, and there were many of them, 



20 THE HARTFORD YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE. 

are not included. Life membership was secured tlirough payment of 
fifty dollars. 

In 1839, several became life members of the Young Men's Institute 
by virtue of having been shareholders of the Hartford Library Com- 
pany. Thomas M. Day, still living, is an instance of such membership. 
From 1842 to 1872, the fee for life membership was $35. In 1873, it 
became $50, at which sum it remains. In 1844, a life membership 
could be gained by contributing $200 to the fund of the Wadsworth 
Atheneum. 

Of the 78 "Life Members and Donors" (p. 17), it is believed that 
only two, Henry Barnard and George Beach, are living. 

The Institute first occupied its present rooms in 1844; it having 
expended $1,150 in fitting up said rooms in 1843. It receives 
annually from the Watkinson Library Fund. 

S. W. A. 



III. 

THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING THE CONNECTICUT 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY. — PASSED MAY SESSION, 1825. 

Upon the petition of John Trumbull and others, shewing that in 
Other States societies have been formed for the purpose of collecting 
records and other documents connected with the early settlement ot 
our country, and praying for an act of incorporation for the purpose ot 
discovering, procuring, and preserving whatever may relate to the 
civil, ecclesiastical, and natural history of the United States, and 
especially of the State of Connecticut: — 

Eesohed by this Assembly, That John Trumbull, Thomas C. Brownell, 
Timothy Pitkin, John S. Peters, William W. Ellsworth. Thonias Day, 
Thomas Robbins, Daniel Burhans, Thomas Hubbard, Isaac Toucey, 
Nathaniel S Wheaton, George Sumner, Roger M. Sherman, William 
T Williams Martin Welles, Joseph Battell, William Cooley Thomas 
H Gallaudet, Thomas S. Williams, Eli Todd, Walter Mitcliell, George 
W Doane, Samuel B. Woodward. Samuel H. Huntington Samuel W. 
Dana James Gould, Samuel A. Foot. Nathan Johnson, Hawley Olm- 
stead' Benjamin Trumbull, and John Hall, and their associates and suc- 
cessors, be and hereby are ordained, constituted, and declared to be 
forever hereafter, a body corporate, by the name of " Tlie Connecticut 
Historical Society," and by that name they, and their associates and suc- 
cessors shall and mav have perpetual succession; shall be capable ot 
suing and being sued." pleading and being impleaded, and also to pur- 
chase receive, hold, and convey any estate, real or personal, to an 
amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars; and may have a com- 
mon seal, and the same may alter at pleasure; may establish rules 
relative to the admission of future members; may ordain, establish, 
and put in execution such by-laws and regulations, not contrarj' to the 
provisions of this charter, or the laws of this State, as shall be deemed 
necessary for the government of said corporation. 

And be it farther resolved, That the Governor of this State the Lieu- 
tenant-Governor, and the Judges of the Superior Court, shall be ex- 
oflacio members of the society. 

And be it further resolved, That said corporation shall meet once a 
year for the choice of a President, Vice-President, Corresponding Sec- 
retary Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and stich other olhcers as may 
be designated, from time to time, by the by laws of the society. 

And be it further resolved, That the first meeting of the society shall 
be holden at the State House in Hartford, at such time as shall be 



22 THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

designated by the Honorable John Trumbull, notice thereof being 
previously given in one or more newspapers printed in Hartford. 

Provided, Nevertheless, that this act of incorporation shall be subject 
to be revoked or altered, at the pleasure of the General Assembly. — 
\^From the pamphlet publiiihed by the Conn. Uistoiical Society in 1839.] 

ACT RENEWING THE CHARTER, PASSED MAY SESSION, 1839. 

Whereas, John Trumbull and others at the session of this Assembly, 
held at Hartford, on the first Wednesday of May, 1825, were incor- 
porated, by the name of the Connecticut Historical Society, for the 
purpose of discovering, procuring, and prc^^erving materials for the 
civil, ecclesiastical, and natural history of the United States, and 
especially of the Slate of Connecticut: And whereas, it was pro- 
vided, by the act of incorporation, that said corporation should meet 
ouce a year, for the choice of a president, vice-president, correspond- 
ing secretary, recording secretary, treasurer, and such other otticers 
as might be designated, from time to time, by the by-laws of the 
society: And whereas, the persons so incorporated met in the month 
of May, 1825, and accepted said act of incorporation, and elected the 
officers mentioned therein, who entered upon the duties assigned 
ihem respectively; but since the year 1825 there has been no election 
of officers in said society, and it is now a matter of doubt whether 
the (;harter of said society is not forfeited by non usijr; and, if other- 
wise, it is difficult to ascertain who are now members: And whereas, 
some valuat)le historical materials were collected by said society, 
while it was in operation, which have been thus far preserved, but 
which are in danger of being scattered and lost, without the care of 
this or some similar institution: And whereas, the objects of said 
society are important and worth}^ of legislative protection and 
encouragement: it is therefore 

Resolved and declared by this Assembly, That the existence of said 
society as a body corporate, with the powers and privileges originally 
granted thereto, be continued and perpetuated, as though its officers 
had been chosen annually since 1825. 

Resolved further. That Thomas C. Brownell, John S Peteis, Wil- 
liam W. Ellsworth, Thomas Day, Thomas Robbins, Isaac Toucey, 
George Sumner, Koger M. Sherman, William T. Williams, Martin 
Wells, Thomas H. Gallaudet, Walter Mitchell, Samuel H. Huntington, 
Nathan Johnson, Hawley Olmstead, David S. Boardman, C liarles Hos- 
mer, Epaphroditus C. Bacon. Erastus Smith, George \\. Bulkley, 
Edward C. Herrick, Noah Porter, Jr., James L. Kingsley, Leonard 
Bacon, Nathaniel Goodwin, Charles Davies, Royal R. Hinman, John 
A. Rockwell, Thomas B. Butler. L. P. Waldo, Andrew T. Judson, 
Henry Barnard, 2d, Elkanah H. Hodges, shall be deemed the present 
members of said society, and shall continue such, subject to the regu- 
lations and by-laws of said society: Provided, that the payment of 
three dollars, as an admission lee, for the benefit of the society, shall 
be an essential qualificiation of membership; and no person, who has 
not already paid such fee, shall hereafter be deemed a .member, until 
such jiayment is made. 

Resolved farther. That Thomas Day be empowered to call the next 
meeting of said society, for the choice of officers, and the transaction of 



THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 23 

other bu'iiness, at such place ia the city of Hartford, and at such time, 
as he may designate for that purpose, £jiving previous notice thereof in 
one or more newspapers printed in said city. 

Provided, nevertiieless, that these resolves, as well as the original act 
of incorporation, shdl be subject to be revoked or altered at the 
pleasure of the General Assembly. — [Private Actx, 1889, p. 57.] 

JVote. — It appears from the pamphlet published by the Conn. Histor- 
ical Society in 1839, that the first president of said society, elected in 
1825, vras John Trumbull, the Judge, and author of McFingal ; that 
the Rev. Thomas Robbins, D.D., was then its corresponding secretary; 
and that Bishop George Washington Doaue (then a professor at Wash- 
ington, now Trinity College), was secretary of the standing committee. 
Within a year thereafter Trumbull and Doane removed from this State, 
and the organization remained in abeyance until the revival of its 
charter in 1839, when Thomas Day, Secretary of State, became its 
president, and Henry Barnard, 2d, its corresponding secretary. 

Mr. Thomas M. Day furnishes the following information : 

" On May 29th, 1839, and for the two days following, there appeared 
in the Hartford Daily Vourant, this advertisement : 

" CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

"A meeting of this Society, under their renewed Charter, will be 
held at the rooms of the Toung Men'>< Institute, in Gilman's Build- 
ing (146^ Main Street), on Saturday, the first day of June next, at 3 
o'clock p. m., for the election of officers, and the transaction of other 
business. Thomas Day." 

S. W. A. 

. EXTRACTS FROM THE WILL OP THE REV. THOMAS ROBBINS, D.D. 

"7th. I have a large collection of silver coins, and a small number 
of gold coins, which 1 commit to the care of my Executors, for the 
benefit of the Connecticut Historical Societ}' ; and particularly for the 
benefit of the Library. 

"8th. The rest and residue of my property, including my stock in 
the Hartford, the Phoenix, and the Savings Banks, in Hartford, and 
any other property belonging to me at my decease, excepting the arti- 
cles otherwise designated in this testamentary instrument — I give to 
the Connecticut Historical Society, to be a perpetual fnnd, the avails 
of which to be applied to the preservation, increase, and improvement 
of the Library ; primarilj'. Theology and History ; ex|>ecting also, that 
the Society will place a suitable monument at the place of my burial." 

IS'ote. — Dr. Robbins died Sept. 13, 1856, and his will was probated 
on the 18th of the same month. It had been executed May 10, 1853. 
The property bequeathed as mentioned in clause Sth above quoted, 
was appraised at $4,686.50. 

The valuable Library of Dr. Robbins had been in the possession of 
the Historical Society since 1844, lie being the Librarian of the Society. 



24 THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

Among other bequests to this Society (exclusive of those meDtioned 
in the wills of Daniel Wadsworth and David Watkinson), have been 
the follovping : 

By the will of Thomas Day (dated December 26, 1854, and probated 
March 16, 1855), $1,000 ; unconditionally. 

By the will of Daniel Goodwin (dated January 5, 1876, and probated 
July 25th, the same year), $1,000 ; " to be applied as Charles J. Hoadly 
shall direct." 

By the will of James B. Hosmer (dated November 17, 1871, and pro- 
bated September 30, 1878), $5,000. By the same instrument he be- 
queathed to said Society his "engravings and works of art." Also, 
the remainder of his library (including the Hosmer family Bible and 
the Bid well family Bible), after taking out those given to the Theolog- 
ical Institute. Also, "a bag of coins," in his secretary ; "a case of 
medals of American officers, and Wyatt's Book of Memoirs of said 
officers." He gave his paintings to the Wadsworth Athenaeum. 

By the terms of the charter of the City Bank, granted in 1851, that 
institution was required to pay $1,000 to the Historical Society. 

The Library now contains, by estimation, more than 20,000 volumes, 
and a rare collection of manuscripts. No catalogue of these, nor of its 
paintings, etc., has ever been made. S. W. A. 

RESOLVE APPROrRIATING $1,000. 

Whereas, the Connecticut Historical Society was incorporated by the 
General Assembly of this State, at its session in May, 1825, for the 
purpose of discovering, procuring, and preserving matter relative to 
the civil, militarj', ecclesiastical and natural history of this State and 
of the United States, — and whereas, in the prosecution of said ob- 
ject, a large and valuable collection of books, manuscripts, and an- 
tiquities, illustrative of the colonial, revolutionary, and subsequent 
history of Connecticut, has been collected at great personal expense 
and exertion by the members thereof; — and whereas, the funds of 
said society are utterlj' inadequate to the proper arrangement and 
binding of manuscripts, papers, &c. : — therefore, — 
liesolved by this General Assembly, That the Comptroller of Public 
Accounts be, and he is hereby authorized to draw an order on the 
Treasurer of this State in favor of the treasurer of the Connecticut His- 
torical Societj', for the sum of one thousand dollars; to be by said so- 
ciety expended in arranging and binding the manuscripts and papers 
aforesaid, for the purpo-se of easy reference and to ensure their preser- 
vation. — [Private Acts, 1845, p. 74.] 

BY-LAWS. 

[In force, October, 1889.] 
I. MEMBERS. 

1. The Society shall consist of Resident, Corresponding, and Hono- 
rary jMembers. 

Resident members shall be persons residing in the State of Connecti- 
cut ; and no others shall be entitled to vote in any meeting of the Societ3^ 



THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 25 

Honorar}' and correspondiug members shall be persons residing out 
of the State of Connecticut; and shall not be subject to any admission 
fee or tax. 

Honorary members shall be persons who may have rendered impor- 
tant, public service to the State of Connecticut, or to the cause of his- 
toric inquuy, or literature generally. 

2. No person shall be voted for as an honorary, corresponding, or 
resident member, until at least one month after his nomination by the 
Committee on Membership; and every such vote shall be taken by bal- 
lot, at a regular meeting, at which not less than ten members are 
present. 

3. Every nomination for the election of honorary or corresponding 
members shall be based on the application, in writing, of two resident 
members, stating the reasons for such nonunalion, and the qualitica- 
tions of the persons proposed for membership. 

4. Whenever a vote shall be taken on the admission of a member, 
and there shall be found two ballots against his admission, the presid- 
ing officer shall declare the election postponed. At the next regular 
meeting, if the recommendation of the committee shall be renewed, he 
may be admitted by the votes of two-thirdg the members present. 

5. Resident members shall pay, on admission, three dollars, and 
two dollars every subsequent year, if they reside witlnn, and one dol- 
lar if they reside without, the limits of the town of Hartford; or, in 
lieu thereof, any person entitled to be a member, may constitute him- 
self a life member by paying, at one time, the sum of twenty-five dol- 
lars. 

6 Should any person, elected as a resident member, omit to signify 
his acceptance of such election, within one month after receiving no- 
lice thereof, and to pay the admission fee, he shall forfeit the privilege 
of becoming a member. The paj'ment of the annual assessment shall 
hereafter constitute a condition of continued membership, and the neg- 
lect or refusal to pay the same, for the period of six months after the 
annual meeting of the Society, shall be deemed a withdrawal from the 
Society. 

7. A copy of the by-laws shall be presented, within one month after 
the adoption of this by-law, by the Recording Secretary, to every resi- 
dent member, to be signed and returned to the Secretary; and mem- 
bers who shall subscribe the same, shall thereafter be considered as ac- 
cepting the provision respecting the annual assessment and the condi- 
tions of membership. 

II. OFFICERS. 

1. The Officers of the Society, to be elected at the annual meeting 
by ballot, and to hold their offices for one year and until others shall 
be chosen, shall be — A President, not exceeding eight Vice-Presi- 
dents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, 
a Committee on Membership, to consist of seven members; Committees 
on the Library, and on Publication; each to consist of three members. 

The preceding officers and the chairman of the several committees 
shall constitute the Standing Committee of the Society. 

A Librarian and Cabinet Keeper shall be appointed, on the nomina- 
tion of the Standing Committee, whenever such appointment shall be 
deemed advisable. 

2. The President shall be, ex officio, chairman of the Standing Com- 
mittee; shall preside at all meetings of the Society and Standing Com- 

4 



26 THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

mittee; call, by himself or Secretary, all meetings of the Society, and 
deliver or provide for an address at the annual meeting. 

3. The Recording Secretary shall have custody of the files, records, 
and seal of the Society; shall give notice to new members of their elec- 
tion, and furnish them certificates of membership; keep an accurate 
journal of the transactions of the Society and Standing Committee; 
and, when directed by the proper officer, call meetings of the same. 

4. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the correspondence, 
in behalf of the Society. 

5. The Treasurer shall receive the admission-fees, and report the 
names of the persons paying the same to the Recording Secretary; 
and shall also receive all other moneys due, and all donations or be- 
quests of money made to the Society; shall pay, to the order of the 
chairman of the Standing Committee, such sums as may be required for 
the ordinary expenses of the Society, and such as the Society may other- 
wise direct to be paid; shall keep a true and faithful account of all 
moneys received and paid by him, and of the property and debts of the 
Society; and shall, at the annual meeting, render a particular state- 
ment, to be examined and audited by a committee who shall be ap- 
pointed at such annual meeting for that purpose. 

6. The Librarian, under the direction of the Library Committee, 
shall arrange and have charge of all books, pamphlets, manuscripts, 
and other articles deposited in the rooms of the Society; and shall, 
before every annual meeting of the Society, make a full report to the 
Lil)rary Committee of his doings as Librarian during the past year, 
and of the condition of the Library. 

7. To the Committee on Membership shall be referred all the propo- 
sitions for the admission of members. No nomination for member- 
ship shall be considered or acted upon by the Committee during a reg- 
ular meeting of the Society. 

8. The Committee on the Library shall, before each annual meeting, 
make a careful examination of the books and other articles deposited 
in the rooms of the Society, and shall report thereon to the Standing 
Committee, including in such report the annual report of the Libra- 
rian. They may make purchases for the Library, under the direction 
of the Society, within the income of the Library fund, or to such an 
amount as may be appropriated by a vote of the Society for su(j^ pur- 
pose. 

9. The Publication Committee shall have the superintendence of all 
publications ordered by the Society. They shall, from time to time, 
report to the Society respecting the selection and arrangement of such 
papers, from the library of the Society or other sources, as are most 
suitable for piil)lication in volumes of the Society's Collections. 

10. The Standing Committee shall act generally in behalf of the So- 
ciety; fill all vacancies in any offices until the next regular meeting of 
theSocietj'; and make an annual report to the Societ5\ Any three 
members of this Committee may constitute a quorum for the transac- 
tion of business, and a notice for a meeting of the Society shall be 
deemed a notice for the meeting of this Committee. 

III. MEETINGS. 

1. An annual meeting shall be held in the month of May, at such 
time and place as the Standing Committee shall appoint. 

2. A regular meeting shall be held on the first Tuesday evening of 
each month, unless suspended by a vote of the Society. 



THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 27 

3. Special meetings shall be called by the President, or, in his ab- 
sence, by the Recording Secretary, on the application of three mem- 
bers. 

4 Previous notice of any meeting of the Society shall be given in 
one or more public prints. And at any meeting, duly called and noti- 
fied, seven members shall constitute a quorum for the tran.saction of 
business, other than the admission of new members, or the negotiation 
of exchange. 

IV. DONATIONS AND DEPOSITS. 

1. All donations to and deposits with the Society shall be entered in 
a book kept for that purpose. 

2. No donation .shall be e.vchanged or disposed of unless the Society 
have a duplicate of the same. 

3. All deposits left with the Society shall be carefully preserved, and 
may at any time be taken by the depositor, in person, or delivered on 
his written order. But every deposit whicli shall not be so reclaimed 
or withdrawn shall, after the decease of the depositor, be entered as 
a donation, and become the property of the Societj'; unless, at the time 
of making the deposit, other conditions shall be prescribed by the de- 
positor. 



1. The Rooms, with all books, manuscripts, pictures, and articles 
belonging to or deposited with the Society, shall be under the Immedi- 
ate charge of the Librarian, acting under the direction of the Library 
Committee. 

3. The Library shall be open for the inspection of the public, and 
the examination of books and manuscripts, and transcription there- 
from, at such time, and on such conditions, as shall be prescribed by 
the Library Committee; and no book or manuscript shall be taken 
from the room, without a special vote of the Society, except by the 
Committee of Publication. 

VI. PUBLICATION FUND. 

The legacy left to the Society by the late President, the Hon. 
Thomas Day, the avails of all life memberships, and all special dona- 
tions and subscriptions which may be made thereto, shall constitute a 
Publication Fund — the income of which shall be applied, under the 
direction of the Publication Committee, toward the expense of such 
publications as may be ordered by the Society. 

VII. ALTERATIONS. 

Any alteration of these by-laws shall be submitted to a regular meet- 
ing, held prior to that on which the vote on the same is taken. 

\_Agreeme)it between the Historical Society and the Watkinson Library.'] 
Note. — On April 1. 1862, the Connecticut Historical Society voted: 
To accept the bequests contained in the Watkinson will, upon the con- 
ditions in said will provided; also, appointing Calvin Day, Erastus 
Smith, and J. Hammond Trumbull a committee to procure plans for 
adding to the space occupied by said society in th^ Wadsworth Athe- 



28 THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

neutn building, or in an extension thereof, to be used for a library of 
reference, in connection with the room of said society; and, for that 
purpose, to come to an arrangement with the trustees of the Watkinson 
Library; the whole to be done with the assent of the Wadsworth Athe- 
neum corporation. Said committee submitted its report on April 15, 
1862. The document, which is lengthy, is to be found recorded, in 
full, in the records of ilie Historical Society', and was also published as 
a pamphlet. 1 he committee reported that the trustees of the Watkin- 
son Library had purchased tlie house and grounds of the late Daniel 
Wadsworth, adjoining the land of the Wadsworth Atheneum; that it 
had conferred with the committee of said trustees, viz., Alfred Smith, 
Henry Barnard, and George M. Bartholomew; had examined two plans 
for the proposed enlargement, and recommended the passage of votes, 
which may be summarized as follows: — 

That the Connecticut Historical Society proceed to construct an ad- 
dition to its division of the Atheneum building; that said addition be 
for the use of the books of the Watkinson Library until .such time as 
the whole, or a part thereof, shall be needed for the books and collec- 
tions of the Historical Society; that in that case the said society will 
repay to said trustees the whole, or a proportional part, of the moneys 
expended [of David Watkinson] in constructing such addiiion, to en- 
able them to erect other rooms for the Watkinson Library, in connec- 
tion with the books, etc., of the Historical Society — or this society 
would, "with such repaid moneys," erect said additions for the W^at 
kinson Library; that, in case of repossessing said addition, the Histori- 
cal Society would give not less than two year.s' previous notice, in 
writing, to said trustees; that the president of the Historical Society 
be authorized to execute au agreement, or indenture, to the foregoing 
effect with said trustees; and that Calvin Day, Erastus Smith, and J. 
Hammond Trumbull be authorized to arrange the terms and stipula- 
tions necessary to connect said library with the books and collections 
of the Historical Society. 

The report of said committee was adopted, and said votes were 
passed, April 15, 1862. At the same time the form of au indenture, 
submitted by said committee and made a part of its report, was carried 
by said adoption. It begins with a preamble containing many where- 
ases, reciting, among other things, the fact of the bequest, by the late 
David Watkinson, of the sum of $100,000 to Alfred Smith, James B. 
Hosmer, and others, trustees, for the purpose of establishing a library 
of reference in "perpetual connection" with the Historical Society; 
and of the provision in said Watkinson's will that $5,000 out of said 
$100,000 should, with the interest thereon, be appropriated in aiding 
said Historical Society to extend its division of said Atheneum build- 
ing, or in some other way enlarging its space, so as to bring the same 



THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 29 

in connection with said library of roference; and of the desire on the 
part of the Historical Society to use said $5,000 for the purpose afore- 
said, and of the scant space then occupied by said society, etc. It was 
therefore agreed, between the said Historical Society, of the first part, 
and the trustees of the Watkinson Library, of the second part, that 
said party of the first part would erect an addition to the Atheneum 
building, extending from the east side thereof to the eastern line of 
the land belonging to said Atheneum ; said addition to be used by said 
society and said library of reference for the mutual convenience of 
both, having due regard to their respective charters, the trust deed of 
Daniel Wadsworth, and the will of said Watkinson. It was further 
agreed that if the Watkinson Library should thereafter erect, on its 
own land, another building for the accommodation of said library of 
reference, then said building should be so constructed as to open into 
the addition hereinbefore provided for, so as to make the respective 
collections of books, etc., inseparably and perpetually usable in con- 
nection with each other, and that an " inseparable union " should exist 
between the two collections. It was also agreed that the Historical 
Society would appoint and pay a librarian so soon as it should be able 
to collect the necessary funds, as contemplated in said Watkinson's 
will, and in the manner tlierein specified ; said appointment to be sub- 
ject to the approval of said trustees, who were to contribute to the 
payment of said librarian in the manner mentioned in said will; the 
compensation of said librarian to be such as both said parties should 
from time to time agree upon. Said trustees further agreed to deposit 
in said addition all the books and collections constituting said library 
of reference. Also, that said Historical Society should always have 
the prior right to the use of said addition, or of any part thereof, when- 
ever it should desire and find needful so to do. 

On May 2, 1863, the trustees of the Watkinson Library, by votes, 
formally "accepted, approved, and agreed to" the votes of the His- 
torical Society, of which a summary lias been given above; and author- 
ized its president, Alfred Smith, to execute said indenture on the part 
of said trustees. Provided, however, that said indenture contain an ad- 
ditional clause binding the Historical Society to expend an equal 
amount of money in the construction of other accommodations for 
said library of reference before, and in case, said library be required to 
vacate said addition; otherwise, the Historical Society should repay to 
the Watkinson Library the amount so expended from said fund of the 
Watkinson Library. 

On May 6, 1862, said votes of the trustees of the Watkinson Library 
were adopted by the Historical Society, including said additional clause 
of the indenture. A committee, consisting of Calvin Day, James B. 
Hosmer, and J. Hammond Trumbull, was then chosen to contract for 



30 THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

and superintend the construction of said addition ; being the building 
now occupied by the Watkinson Library. 

The foregoing summary is compiled from the record book of the 
Connecticut Historical Society. In the records sixteen closely-written 
pages are occupied with this matter. S. W. A. 

[For additional matter, giving names of officers, members, etc., see 
infra.] 



IV. 

WADSWORTH ATHENEUU. 



SUBSCRIPTION DOCUMENT FOR A FUND FOR THE ERECTION OP A 

BUILDING ON LAND PROPOSED TO BE GIVEN BY 

DANIEL WADSWORTH. 

Whereas, Daniel Wadswortii, Esq., offers to grant a lot of land 
lying between an alley north and Charles Brainard's land south, and 
between Main Street west and the garden and grounds in his own 
occupancy east, as a site for a building to be constructed in three 
divisions, with suitable walls between them, extending from the f<jun- 
dation to the roof, as a protection from fire, and to be separately used, 
one for a gallery of fine arts, another division for the library and other 
accommodations of the Hartford Young Men's Institute, and the third 
division for the use of the Connecticut Historical Society, or in case 
either of the above objects should be abandoned or transferred else- 
where, then the part so left vacant to be applied to other objects of 
general ioterest, free of charge, except for insurance, taxes (if any), 
preservation, and repairs of the building. 

We, the subscribers, to secure the benefit of the above munificent 
offer, hereby unite ourselves into an association (with the intention of 
procuring an act of incorporation) to erect a suitable building, on the 
plan and for the purposes above expressed, and to establish a Gallery 
of the Fine Arts. 

The capital stock of the Association or Incorporation shall be divided 
into two classes of shares: first, those of $100 each, which shall be 
assignable and transmissible, and secondly, those of $25 each, which 
shall become extinct upon the death of the subscriber. 

The concerns of said Association shall be managed by trustees, 
under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by their charter, 
or pursuant thereto. [Eleven] of such trustees shall be elected annu- 
ally by the shareholders, and every subscriber to said capital stock, to 
the amount of |500 shall by virtue thereof be a trustee for life. 

Every subscriber to the amount of $2i or more shall be a member 
of said corporation, and in all meetings of the shareholders he shall 
be entitled to give one vote on every share of |35, and four votes on 
every share of' .f 100 held by him. A subscribnr to the amount of !|50 
shall be entitled to the privilege of admission to the gallery during his 
life, subject to such rules and regulations a** may be prescribed by the 
trustees for that purpose. Every holder of a share of $100 shall be 
entitled to such privilege while he remains a holder; and every holder 
of shares amounting to $300 or more shall be entitled to the same 
privilege, and such privileges in the other institutions connected with 
this Association as may be agreed on by said trustees and the directors 
of said institution respectively. 



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WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 



Aud to this end we, the subscribers, hereby severally promise to pay 
to David F. Robinson, David Watliinson, and James B. Hosmer, or 
to the survivors of them, in trust for this Association, tlie sums affixed 
to our respective names, in two equal iustallments, one on the 1st of 
July, 1842, and the other on the 1st of April, 1843. Provided, that no 
subscription shall be binding unless at least twenty thousand dollars 
shall be subscribed hereto by the first day of December, 1841. 



subscribers' names. 



RESIDENCE. 



AMOUNT. 



Note. — The foregoing is the form of the printed heading which, 
having been placed at the top of several separate sheets of blank paper, 
was circulated by members of the Committee on Subscriptions, and 
signatures thereto were obtained from citizens who were to aid in the 
building fund. Below are the names and amounts, in the order in 
which they stand recorded in the Record Book of Wadsworth Athe- 
neum. The original subscription sheets are without date. 

S. W. A. 

Robbins & Winship, $200.00 

Sanford B. Grant, 200.00 

Philip Ripley, 200.00 
Edward BoUes & Lucius B. 

Childs, 200.00 

Christopher C. Lyman, 200.00 

Henry Barnard, 2d, 200.00 
C. Hosmer & J. S. Hosmer, 200.00 

Gideon Welles, 200.00 

William W. Turner, 200.00 

Curtis Judson, 200.00 

Silas B. Hamilton, 200.00 

Waterman Roberts, 200.00 

C. Brainard & Son, 200.00 

Roswell Brown, 200.00 

Thomas Smith, 200.00 

Niles& Watson, 200.00 

Roswell C. Smith, 200.00 

Eliphalet Terry, 200.00 

Ebenezer W. Bull, 200.00 
^tna Insurance Company, 200.00 

Joseph Pratt, 150.00 

George Beach, 150.00 

Dennison Morgan, 100.00 

William T. Lee, 100.00 

Charles Abernethy, 100.00 

David Clark, 100 00 

Charles Seymour, lUO.OO 

John Butler, 100.00 

Alexander H. Pomeroy, 100.00 

Hungerford & Cone, 100.00 

James H. Wells, 100.00 

Stephen Spencer, 100.00 

George Beach, Jr., 100.00 



Daniel Wadsworth, 


16,500.00 


Thomas Day, 


1,000.00 


David WatkuLsoD, 


1,250.00 


Alfred Smith, 


1,000.00 


Erastus Smith, 


500.00 


James B. Hosmer, 


500.00 


John M. Niles, 


500.00 


Henry A. Chittenden, 


500.00 


Charles H. Olmsted, 


500.00 


Albert W. Butler, 


500.00 


David F. Robinson, 


500.00 


Robert Watkinson, 


500.00 


Charles and John L. Boswell.SOO 00 


Cyprian Nichols, 


500.00 


A. & C. Day & Co., 


500 00 


John Olmsted & Co., 


500.00 


A. M. Collins & Sons, 


500.00 


James & R. B. & W. A. Ward, 500.00 


James Dixon, 


500.00 


Case, Tiffau}' & Burnham 


500.00 


Thomas S. Williams, 


500 00 


Thomas K. Brace, 


boo.oo 


Joseph Trumbull, 


800.00 


Hezekiah B. Chaffee, 


300.00 


Crosby, White & Dunham 


, 300.00 


George Burnham & Co., 


200.00 


James G. Bolles, 


200.00 


Goodwin & Co., 


200.00 


John Warburton, 


200.00 


Joseph Morgan, 


200.00 


Elihu Geer, 


200.00 


Ellery Hills, 


200.00 


Leonard H. Bacon, 


200.00 


Gurdon Fox, 


200.00 



WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 



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David S. Brooks, $100.00 
George M. Bartholomew, 100.00 

Holcomb & Walkley, 100.00 

Ezra Clark, Jr., 100.00 

George Sumner, 100.00 

Thomas C. Perkins, 100 00 

Joseph Cliurch, 100.00 

Daniel Dewey, 100.00 

Enoch C. Stanton, 10000 

Ezra S. Hamilton, 100.00 

John H. Webb, 100.00 

Francis Parsons, 100.00 

George Burgess, 100 00 

Simeon L. Loomis, 100.00 

Edmund B. Hull, 100 00 

Junius S. Morgan, 100.00 

Miles A. Tuttle, 100.00 

A. Saunders & Son, 100.00 

John G. Mix, 100.00 
Lemuel Humphrey, • 100.00 
L. H. & J. C. Woodruff, 100.00 

Mason Gross, 100.00 

Daniel W. Clark, 100.00 

Roland Mather, 100.00 

Harvey Seymour, 100.00 

David S. Dodge, 100.00 

Ebenezer Flower, 100.00 

Horatio Alden, 100.00 

Thomas Belknap, 100.00 

Julius Catlin, 100.00 

Lucien B. Hanks, 100.00 

Ezra Clark, 100.00 

Walter Phelps, 100.00 



George Brinley, Jr. , $100. 00 

Solomon Porter, 100.00 

James M. Buuce, 100.00 

Elisha Peek. 100.00 

Charles F. Pond, 100.00 

Daniel Buck, 100.00 

Edson Fessenden, 100.00 

Samuel Woodruff, 68.23 

Edwin Taylor, 50.00 

Samuel G. Boughton, 50.00 

Calvin Spencer, 50.00 
Humphrey, Seyms & Co., 50.00 

Noah Wheaton, 50.00 

William Ely, 100.00 

Thomas M. Day, 50.00 

Amariah Brigham, 50.00 

John H. Preston, 50.00 

T. S. & J. Parker, 50.00 

Chauncey Ives, 50.00 

Asa Farwell, 50.00 

Hezekiah Brainard, 50.00 

Dudley Buck, 50.00 

William B. Ely, 25.00 

Sheldon Woodbridge, 25.00 

Collins Stone, 25.00 

Henry B Camp, 25.00 

Laurent Clerc, 25.00 

Bela Turner, 25.00 

Virgil Cornish, 25.00 

Esek J. Preston. 25.00 
Thomas S. Williams, 2d, 25.00 

Alfred Gill, 25.00 

Charles L. Porter. 12.50 



[Total sum subscribed, $31,730.72.] 



Note. — It will be seen that the total number of signatures to the 
foregoing list is 133. Of these, one subscribed for a sum less than $25, 
making 132 signers who would be entitled to hold " shares " of oiie or 
the other of the two classes of shares established by the act of incor- 
poration which followed. That act provided that the $100 shares 
should be transferable, while the $25 shares should become extinct 
upon the death of the persons who subscribed for them. As only the 
$100 shares possessed the ordinary elements of shares of stock, of 
being assignable and descendible — it would seem that they, and they 
only, could be considered in estimating the amount of the capital stock 
of the corporation. An analysis of the subscription list given above 
will show the following results: — 

The capital stock amounted to $30,600, originally held by 108 sub- 
scribers. The holders of life shares were twenty-four in number, 
amounting (as some had subscribed $50 each) to $950; leaving frac- 
5 



34 WADSWOETH ATHENEUM. 

tional subscriptions, aggregating $180.72, to make up the grand total 
of $31,730.72. The shares outstanding and traceable to-day amount to 
$29,700, which may be called the present capital stock. 

It is not important, however, to inquire whether the stock is worth 
more or less than par. It can never possess any market value. As it 
can never, in the nature of things, pay any cash dividend, it cannot be 
made the basis of speculation. Should the corporation divert its prop- 
erty to any other than its present use, the ownership of both land and 
buildings would revert to the heirs of Daniel Wadsworth; and the per- 
sonalty, probably, would return to its donors, or their legal represent- 
atives. So that the real interest of shareholders is practically limited 
to the right which they possess to care for and manage the property in 
the interest of this beneficent institution. 

It is perhaps as well here as anywhere to introduce some account of 
the way in which these subscriptions were secured. The following 
information is obtained from memoranda in the possession of Wads- 
worth Atheneum: — 

Mr. Wadsworth's plan was substantially settled in the summer of 
1841. A meeting of citizens was held on the 24th of September, the 
same year, at the office of William H. Imlay, in order to devise the 
ways and means of raising a fund for the erection of a building on 
land proposed to be given by Daniel Wadsworth for that purpose. At 
this meeting David Watkinson was chairman, and Gideon Welles was 
clerk. It chose Thomas Day, John M. Niles, and Henry Barnard a 
committee to mature a plan, to be submitted at a subsequent meeting. 
This was on motion of Erastus Smith. At an adjourned meeting, 
September 28th, Erastus Smith, Ezra Clark, Jr., and Alfred Smith 
were added to the committee. On the 30th, a draft of a subscrip- 
tion (see above) was submitted and adopted, and Thomas Day, 
Alfred Smith, John M. Niles, A. M. Collins, James B. Hosmer, David 
F. Robinson, Gideon Welles, Albert W. Butler, Calvin Day, Elijah H. 
Owen, Erastus Smith, Ezra Clark, Jr., Henry Barnard, 2d, Wm. J. 
Hamersley, Junius S. Morgan, and Stephen Spencer — were chosen a 
committee to solicit subscriptions. This they evidently did by circu- 
lating printed copies of the form printed above. S. W. A. 

THE DEED OF TRUST BY DANIEL WADSWORTH. 

To all people to whom these presents shall come, — Oreeting : 

Know ye, that I, Daniel Wadsworth of Hartford, in the county of 
Hartford, and State of Connecticut, for the consideration of one dol- 
lar, received to my full satisfaction of Thomas S. Williams and Alfred 
Smith, both of said Hartford, do give, grant, bargain, sell, and con- 
firm unto the said Williams and Smith, and to the survivor of them, a~ 
certain parcel of land, lying in the city of Hartford, bounded and 
described as follows, viz. : Beginning at the southwest corner thereof 



WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 35 

on Main street, where my land joins the northwest corner of Charles 
Brainard's house lot, thence running northwardly about one hundred 
and twenty-one feet and a half, to the alley leading from Main street 
to my dwelling-house, thence eastwardiy along the Boulh side of the 
same alley about one hundred and seventy-two feet, to the east side of 
the gateway or cart-way nearest to Main street, which passes through 
and under the brick out-building or wing connected with my dwelling- 
house, thence southwardly along the face of the wall which bounds the 
east side of said gateway in a straight line, at right angles with the 
north wall of said out-building, to the north side of said Brainard's 
house lot, about one hundred and twenty feet, thence westwardly 
about one hundred and seventy-three feet to the place of beginning ; 
bounded east by my own land, west by Main street, north by said 
alley, south by Charles Brainard's land. Reserving to myself, my 
heirs, and assigns, a right of way and free passage in common with 
the grantees, their heirs and assigns, on, over, and through said 
gateway, and on, over, and across the east end of the above 
granted premises, which light of way is to be twelve feet wide 
from the south side of said out-building and gateway, to said 
Brainard's north line. Said gateway, and said twelve foot gangway 
are to afford a free and common passage to the grantor and grantees, and 
their respective heirs and as^signs, between the land on either side 
thereof and the alley aforesaid. Also reserving to myself and my 
wife, during our joint lives, and the life of the survivor of us, the use 
of so much of the above granted premises as lies east of the buildings 
and garden lately occupied by J. C. Furber and William J. Ham- 
ersley, unless we, or either of us, should choose to surrender or 
relinquish to the grantees, our use of some part of this reservation 
during our life. 

To "have and to hold the above granted premises, with the appurte- 
nances thereof, unto them the said Williams and Smith, their heirs 
and assigns, and to the survivor of them, his heirs and assigns forever, 
for the uses hereinafter expressed; and in trust for a corporation 
intended to be created and organized, and to include as members 
thereof certain subscribers to a fund or capital stock, or so many of 
them as shall unite and become incorporated, together with their 
associates; which fund' or capital stock has been subscribed and 
promised, and is intended for the erection of a building on the above 
granted premises, to be constructed and maintained in three principal 
divisions, separated from each other by substantial partition walls, 
extending from the foundation to the roof, as a protection from fire; 
the central division is to be appropriated and used for a Gallery of fine 
arts, the north wing or division for a library, reading-room, and other 
accommodations of the Hartford Young Men's Institute; and the south 
wing or division for the Connecticut Historical Society; with power 
and authority to said society to allow or grant rooms or accommodations 
in their division for the use of the Natural History Society of Hartford, 
on such terms and to such extent as said Historical Society shall think 
proper. 

In case the use of either division of said building shall at any time 
be abandoned or relinquished by the society or institution for which 
the same is intended and appropriated, the division so left vacant and 
unused may be applied and appropriated to some other institution or 
object of science, learning, or arts of general interest and utility. The use 
of said building is intended to be without charge to the several societies 
or institutions occupying the same, except for insurance, taxes (it any), 



36 WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 

and for the preservation and repairs of the building. And also, I, the 
the said Wadsworth, do for myself, my heirs, executors, and adminis- 
trators, covenant with the said Williams and Smith, and the survivor 
of them, and their heirs and assigns, that at and until the ensealing of 
these presents, I am well seized of the premises, as a good indefeasible 
estate in fee simple, and have good right to bargain and sell the same 
in manner and form as is above written, and that the same is free of 
all incumbrances whatsoever. And furthermoie, I, the said Wads- 
worth, do by these presents bind myself and my heirs forever, to 
warrant and defend the above granted and bargained premises, to 
them the said Williams and Smith, and the survivor of them, and their 
heirs and assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoever. 

Provided, and this grant and conveyance are made on and sub- 
ject to the conditions following, viz. : That no building be erected 
or suffered to remain on the granted premises at a less distance than 
thirty feet from Main Street. Also that excepting such principal 
building, in three divisions as aforesaid, no other building more than 
twelve feet high shall ever be erected or placed on said land. 

Also, that no building shall be erected on said land at a less distance 
from said principal building than twenty-five feet. 

Provided, however, that so much of said out-building as now stands 
upon or over the granted premises may.be suffered to remain and be 
maintained and rebuilt by said grantees and their assigns. Whenever 
said proposed corporation shall have been formed and organized, it 
shall be the duty of said trustees, or the survivor or successors of 
them, to convey the premises before granted to such corporation, 
subject to the uses, trusts, conditions and reservations contained 
herein. 

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 
eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and forty-two. 
Signed, sealed, and delivered 
in presence of — 

T. H. Gallaudet. 

Horace Hooker. DANIEL WADSWORTH. [l. s.] 

Faith Wadsworth. 

Hartford County bs. Hartford, 18th March, 1842. 
Personally appeared Daniel Wadsworth, Esquire, signer and sealer 
of the forgoing instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free 
act and deed, before me. 

JEREMIAH BROWN, 

Jus: of Peace. 

the transfer by the trustees. 

Know all men by these presents, that we, Thomas S. Williams and 
Alfred Smith, both of Hartford, in execution of the trusts in the above 
deed of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq., and in consideration of one tioUar, 
have remised, released, and forever quitclaimed, and do ly these 
presents for ourselves, remise, release, and forever quitclaim unto 
Wadsworth Atheneum, and their successors, all such right and title 
as we the said Williams and Smith have, or ought to have, in or to the 
land conveyed to us in the above deed from Daniel Wadsworth, Esq. 

To have and to hold the premises unto s-aid Wadsworth Atheneum, 
and their successors, subject to the conditions and restrictions con- 



WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 37 

tained in the above conveyance from Daniel Wadsworth, Esq., to llie 
only use and behoof of said Wadsworth Atheneum, and their suc- 
cessors forever, so that neither we, the said Williams and Smith, nor 
any one in our names and behalf, shall or will hereafter claim or 
demand any right or title to the premises, or any part thereof, but 
they, every of them, shall by these presents be excluded and forever 
barred. 

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this 
twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord 1842. 
Signed, sealed, and delivered 
in presence of — 
Isaac D. Bull. THOMAS S. WILLIAMS, [l. s.] 

Edwin Benjamin. ALFRED SMITH, [l. s.] 

Hartford County ss. Hartford, November 25, 1842. 
Personally appeared Thomas S. Williams and Alfred Smith, signers 
and sealers of the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged the same 
to be their free act and deed before me. 

EDWIN BENJAMIN, 

Jubtice Peace. 

Note. — The two preceding deeds are recorded in Vol. 64, pp. 240-2, 
in the land records of Hartford. The originals are framed, and hang 
in the main room of the Historical Society. S. W. A. 

AN ACT to incorporate WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 
PASSED 1842. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General 
Assembly convened. Section 1. That Daniel Wadsworth, Thomas 
Day, David Watkinson, Thomas S. Williams, Alfred Smith, John M. 
Niles, Erastus Smith, William H. Imlay, James B. Hosmer, David F. 
Robinson, Charles H. Olmsted. Henry A. Chittenden, Robeit Watkin- 
son, Albert W. Butler. Cyprian Nichols, Charles Boswell, John L. 
Boswell, John Olmsted, Sheldon P. Thatcher, Elizur T. Goodrich, 
Albert Day, Calvin Day, Elijah H. Owen, Amos M. Collins, William 
L. Collins, Erastus Collins, Charles Collins, James Ward, Roswell B. 
Ward, AVilliam A. Ward, James Dixon, Newton Case, Edwin D. 
Tififany, Leander C. Burnham, Roswell C. Smith, Thomas K. Brace, 
Joseph Trumbull, Hezekiah B. Chaffee, Daniel P. Crosby, Ezra White, 
Jr., Austin Dunham, George Burnham, William L. Wright, James G. 
Bolles, George Goodwin, Jr., Charles Goodwin, John Warburton, 
Joseph Morgan, Gideon Welles, Elihu Geer, Ellery Hills, Leonard H. 
Bacon, Gurdon Fox, P. F. Robbins, Joseph Winship, Sanford B. 
Grant, Philip Ripley, Edward Bolles, Lucius B. Childs, C. C. Lyman, 
Henry Barnard, 2d, Charles Hosmer, Jona. Seymour Brown, William 
W. Turner, Curtis Judson, Silas B. Hamilton, Waterman Roberts, 
Charles Brainard, Charles H. Brainard, Roswell Brow-n, Thomas 
Smith, Denison Morgan, Siillman Niles, Jonathan Watson, William T. 
Lee, Charles Abernethy, David Clark, Charles Seymour, John Butler, 
Alexander H. Pomroy, William Hungerford, William R. Cone. James 
W. Wells, Stephen Spencer, George Beach, Jr., John H. Preston, 
David S. Brooks, George M. Bartholomew, James H. Holcomb. James 
C. Walkley, Ezra Clark, Jr., George Sumner, Allen Porter, Thomas 
C. Perkins, Eliphalet Terry, Joseph Church, Daniel Dewey, Enoch C. 



38 WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 

Stanton, Ezra S. Hamilton, John H. Webb, Charles Mygatt, Samuel 
Woodruff, Francis Parsons, George Burgess, Simeon L. Loomis, Junius 
S. Morgan, Harvey Seymour, Thomas S. Parker, John Parlier, Miles A. 
Tuttle, Edmund B. Hull, Asahel Saunders, Ralph Saunders, John G. 
Mix, Lemuel Humphrey, Lucius H. Woodruff, James C. Woodruff, 
Samuel Kellogg, William Kellogg, Mason Gross, Daniel W. Clark, 
Roland Mather, David S. Dodge, Esek J. Preston, Edwin Taylor, S. 
G. Boughton, Calvin Spencer, Robert S. Seyms, George Seyms, Noah 
Wheaton, Oliver E. Williams, Thomas S. Williams, 2d, Thomas M. 
Day, Amariah Brigham, William B. Ely, Sheldon Woodbridge, Col- 
lins Stone, Henry B. Camp, Laurent Clerc, Charles L. Porter, Bela 
Turner, Virgil Cornish, Gurdon Robbins, Jr., and their successors and 
associates shall be and hereby are created and constituted a body politic 
and corporate, by the name of " Wadnworth Atheneum," and by that 
name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession ; shall 
be capable of suingand being sued, pleading and be impleaded, in al I suits 
at law and in equity; may have a common seal and may alter the same 
at pleasure. And whereas. Daniel Wadsworth of the city of Hartford, 
has granted to Thomas S. Williams and Alfred Smith, in trust for said 
corporation, a lot of land lying between an alley on the north and 
Charles Brainard's land on the south, and between Main Street on the 
west and land of said Wadsworth on the east, as a site for a building 
to be constructed in three divisions to be separately used, one for a 
Gallery of Fine Arts, another for the Library and other accommoda- 
tions of the Ilarlford Young Men's Institute, and the third for the use 
of the Connecticut Historical Society, with power and authority to said 
society to allow or grant room or accommodations in their division for 
the use of the Natural History Society of Hartford, on such terms and 
to such extent as said historical society shall think proper, or in case 
either of the above objects should be abandoned or transferred else- 
where, then the part so left vacant to be applied to other objects of 
general interest free of charge except for insurance, taxes (if any), pres- 
ervation and repairs of the building; said corporation is hereby empow- 
ered to take from said trustees a conveyance of said land, with all the 
privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging ; and to hold the same 
pursuant to the terms of said grant and for the uses and purposes 
therein expressed and thereby intended; and said corporation is also 
hereby empowered to make contracts and to adopt contracts made for 
the erection and finishing of said building with suitable out-buildings 
and fences on said land, and for repairs and rebuilding of the same 
when needed; for insurance thereon, for the furnishing thereof and for 
the purchase of paintings, engravings, statues, and other works of 
art to be placed therein; and generall}^ to do all acts necessary and 
proper to carry into full effect the objects and purposes for which said 
land was granted; and said corporation is also empowered to receive 
and hold other personal property not exceeding ten thousand dollars in 
amount or value; which property may be loaned or otherwise disposed 
of, and the interest or principal applied for the objects and purposes 
aforesaid as occasion may require. Provided, however, that said cor- 
poration shall have no power to alienate or mortgage said real estate or 
any part thereof. 

Sec. 2. The capital stock of this corporation shall be held by those 
who have or shall become subscribers thereto in the following manner. 
Said stock shall be divided into two classes of shares: First, those of 
one hundred dollars each, which shall be assignable and transferable; 
and .secondly, those of twenty live dollars each, which shall become 



WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. ^^ 

ke amount are entitled to have enjoy, and exercise 
vtt... ^ Thp ronrerns of said corporation shall be manageu uy a 

mmmMBmB 
iiliiiiiii 

Shares; and generally for carrying ^" ofect tj^^PO-ers hereby 
granted, not othervvise specifically provided for i^/.^»^m sue 
tnd by-laws be not repugnant to the provisions ot this charier. 

""sl'r T AlTtt°eB'ate"?eal and personal, wUlch may at any lime be 

?e',r?tra"d'e;penVd1„%e*'?brect.°ld'purp^ 

'"w "7 The first meeting of the aitareholders shall be bolden at snch 

la said city. 



40 WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 

Sec. 8. The exemption from taxation, provided for by the sixth 
section of this act, sliall be subject to the future action and control of 
the General Assembly; and all parts of this act may, by said assembly, 
be amended, altered, or repealed. — [Private Laws of Conn., Vol. IV, 
p. 12U2, Compilation of 1856.] 

Note. — In section 1, of the foregoing Act of Incorporation, there 
appear the names of 144 persons, as the Charter Members. This is 
11 in excess of the number of signatures appended to the Subscription 
List, on p. 32. The discrepancy is partly accounted for by the fact 
that on the latter are the signatures of 21 copartnerships, and one cor- 
poration, where the signature in each case represents several persons. 
In such cases, some one member of the firm was (as requii'ed by the 
Charter) chosen to represent the firm. 

In the same section are the names of six Charter Members whose 
names do not appear on the Subscription List ; nor, so far as can be 
seen, were they members of any of the firms whose signatures are 
there. These are : William H. Imlay, Jonathan Seymour Brown, 
Allen Porter, Samuel Kellogg, William Kellogg, and Oliver E. Wil- 
liams. In four instances, at least, a person is named as Charter Mem- 
ber, while one or more of his associates, in the same firm, are also 
named as such members. These are : Elizur T. Goodrich, Elijah H. 
Owen, Wm. L. Wright, and Charles Mygatt. 

On the other hand, the names of 23 persons appearing on the Sub- 
scription List, are not mentioned in the Charter. These are : 

Ebenezer W. Bull, Edson Fessenden, Ezra Clark, Sen., 

Joseph Pratt, Dudley Buck, Lucien B. Hanks, 

Alfred Gill, Charles F. Pond, Julius Catlin, 

Daniel Buck, Elisha Peck, Thomas Belknap, 

Hezekiah Brainard, James M. Bunce, Horatio Alden, 

Asa Farvvell, Solomon Porter, Ebenezer Flower, 

Chauncey Ives, Geo. Briuley, Jr., George Beach, Sen 

William Ely, Walter Phelps, 

Most of these had subscribed $100. Perhaps some subscribers had 
died, or had failed to pay their subscriptions; and others may have 
been included in the phrase "and their associates," in the Charter. 

If we add to the 144 Charter Members the 23 subscribers not named 
in the Charter, the grand total of the founders of the Atheneum is 167. 
Of these, it is not believed that more than 21 are living. They are: 

Newton Case, James C. Walkley, 

Edwin D. Tiffany, Ezra Clark, 

Philemon F. Robbins, Junius S. Morgan (London), 

Henry Barnard, Ralph Saunders, 

Leonard H. Bacon, Roland Mather, 

Stillman Niles, Thomas M. Day, 

William R. Cone, Curtis Judson, 

George Beach, Joseph Pratt, 

Geo. M. Bartholomew, Daniel Buck (San Francisco), 
James H. Holcomb (Nice), Thomas Belknap, and 

Henry A. Chittenden (N. J.). 



WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 41 

Of one of these survivors (the Hon. Henry Barnard, LL.D.), it may 
be truly said that he is the only person, now living, who was an origi- 
nal member of the Historical Society (in 1839). Young Men's Institute, 
Wadsworth Atheneum, and Watkinson Librarj'. 

The work on the Atheneum building had been begun before the Act 
of Incorporation, above printed, was passed. The construction com- 
menced as early as March, 1842, the very month in which "Wadsworth 
executed his deed of trust. As, by the terms of that deed, his grantees 
were to convey the land to the corporation, when formed — it follo^s^s 
that they could not convey the land until after the passage of the Act 
in question; and, in fact, at the date when they made the transfer (in 
November, 1842), some eight months of labor had been expended on 
the building. 

The building was completed in July, 1844. The committee having 
the matter in cliarge was compo.sed of : Alfred Smith, James B. Hos- 
mer, Gideon Welle.s, David Watkinson, David F. Robinson, Erastus 
Smith, and Calvin Day. The architects were Ithiel Town and Alex. J. 
Davis (the firm of Town & Davis), of New York city.* The contrac- 
tor for the masonry was Frederick Campbell of Willimantic, and for 
the joiner work Noah Wheat on of Hartford. James B. Hosmer was 
the " superintendent." The building had a front of 100 feet in length, 
the center being 80 feet deep, and the wings each 70 feet. The walls 
of the front and the north side were faced with gneiss, from the quarry 
of Elijah Sparks of Eastbury, Conn., and lined with brick to the 
depth of 12 inches. The two division walls, separating the wings from 
the central section, were of brick, extending from the foundation walls 
to the roof, and were 16 inches thick. 

The cost of the building was as follows : 

Paid by the building committee, .... |26,826.38 

D. Wadsworth, for sky-light, portico, etc., . 2,076.00 

Subscribers, for painting interior, etc., . . 3,850.00 

Young Men's Institute, for alcoves, etc., . . 960.00 

Connecticut Historical Society, for cases, etc., . 645.00 

Total $34,357.38 

Inasmuch as the full amount of the original subscription was $31,- 
730.32, it \\'ill be seen that (assuming that the whole sum subscribed 
was collected), there remained a deficiency of more than $2,600, to be 
otherwise made up. Of this, the Institute and the Historical Society 
paid $1,605. In January, 1844, David Watkinson added $500 to hia 
original subscription. In March, of the same year, there was started 
a new subscription, to raise $3,000 to secure the services of George 



* Mr. Town was the architect of the CUy Hall, on Kinsley street, and of the Capitol, 
at New Haven. 



42 WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 

Piatt, a decorator, of New York (but formerly of London), to paint 
the interior of the building. His work was " to be done in the beauti- 
ful process called A^^afcom^/te "; a process " discovered about two years 
since," and known only " to Mr. Piatt and the discoverer." For this 
purpose Mr. Wadsworth and Alfred Smith subscribed each $500; 
E. W. Bull and the ^tna Insurance Company subscribed each $200; 
David Watkinson, Thomas Belknap, Julius Catlin, Lucien B. Hanks, 
Ezra Clark, Walter Phelps, George Brinley, Solomon Porter, James 
M. Bunce, Elisha Peck, Charles F. Pond, Daniel Buck, E. F Lin- 
coln (?), Joseph Pratt, Eliphalet Terry, and William Ely subscribed 
each $100; Dudley Buck, Asa Farwell, and Chauncey Jones each 
$50; and Alfred Gill, $25; making in all $3,175 for the decoration 
fund. 

All subscriptions and contributions amounted to $39,086. As the 
entire cost of the building was but $34,357, it would seem that the 
shrinkage in collections amounted to $4,729; or there was a surplus of 
the same sum; or that there was some shrinkage, offset by some sur- 
plus funds. 

The land, and the old buildings, donated by Mr. Wadsworth, were 
estimated, at that day, to be worth $16,200. His cash subscriptions 
and payments, toward the building alone, amounted to $9,076. So 
that his donations were of the value of $25,276, exclusive of his gifts 
toward the Art Gallery, etc.; and, it hardly needs be added, the value 
is many fold more to-day. 

The historic dwelling house of the W^adsworth family, removed in 
order to make room for the Atheneum building, had been built by 
Mr. Wadsworth's grandfather, the Bev. Daniel Wadsworth, in 1730; 
and had been occupied by his father. Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth, in the 
Revolutionary period. In it, Mr. Wadsworth, the donor, had been 
reared. It was removed to the south side of Buckingham street, where 
it stood, somewhat altered as to its external features, until it was 
demolished in 1887. 

There was an additional subscription, for book-cases, etc., of which 
no note has been made in the foregoing sketch. James B. Hosmer 
paid $100; Alfred Smith and Thomas Day paid each $50. Others 
paid sums of from $5 to $25 each. The iron fence was built from the 
proceeds of another subscription fund. S. W. A. 

AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 

Whereas many of the stockholders of the Wadsworth Atheneum 
have deceased, and much of the stock of said corporation has never 
been inventoried or distributed in the settlement of their estates, and 
has substantially been abandoned, and there are no known parties to 
represent said stock in any of the meetings of said corporaiion, and 
said corporation is liable to become extinct by reason ot the death of 



WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 43 

its stockholders and the like abandonment and extinction of its 
stock ; now, therefore, for the purpose of perpetuating and keeping 
alive said corporation, and carrying into effect and administering 
the uses and trusts for which said corporation was created. 
Resolved by this Assembly : Section 1. Tliat the Wadsworth Athe- 
neum be and hereby is authorized to become and be the holders and 
owners of the capital stock or any part of the stock of the corporation, 
and receive and take transfers from time to time of such stock to its 
treasurer and his successor and successors in othce, or to such other 
otiicer, officers, or persons as said corporation may from time to time 
direct, to be held by or for said corporation with full power to dispose 
of and transfer said stock and vote upon the same in any of the meet- 
ings of said corporation, and that said stock so held by or for said cor- 
poration shall have and be entitled to all and the same rights and privi- 
leges in all respects as the slock held by the other stockholders. And 
the said corporation is hereby authorized to make all such by-laws, 
rules, and regulations in relation to such stock, and the holding of and 
voting upon the same, and the persons to be elected directors and offi- 
cers in said corporation, and the perpetuation of said corporation, as 
they shall deem expedient, not otherwise contrary to law, and that the 
corporate existence of said Wadsworth Alheneum shall not be preju- 
diced by said ownership or the exercise of the powers herein granted. 
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect whenever the same is accepted by 
said corporation, and a copy of such acceptance is lodged in the office 
of the secretary of state. 

Approved, February 24, l^Q. — {Special Acts, 1886, p. 220.] 

AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 

Resolved by this Assembly : Section 1. That the Wadsworth Athe- 
neum be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to receive, hold, 
and own, by gift, purchase, will, or otherwise, real estate in addition 
to the lot of land specified in its charter to an amount not exceeding 
one hundred thousand dollars in value, and to erect buildings thereon 
for the objects specified in said charter, and to be used by one or more 
of the corporations named in said charter, and, if thought expedient 
by said Wadsworth Atheneum, to be used by the Trustees of the Wat- 
kmson Library upon such terms and provisions as may be agreed upon 
by said corporations and said Wadsworth Atheneum, and also by the 
Art Society of Hartford, and other iustitutioxis of science, learning, 
and arts of general interest and utility as may be agreed upon, with 
power to mortgage, lease, aliene, sell, and convey the real estate which 
may be received, held, or purchased by virtue of this resolution. The 
said Wadsworth Atheneum is also empowered to receive and hold, 
with power of sale and remvestment, personal property to the amount 
of one mdlion dollars for the erection of the buildings of said corpora- 
tion, for the care, management, and repairs of all its property, for the 
benetit of the other corporations which now or may occupy said build- 
ings, and for the objects specitied in its charter, and for the uses and 
purposes specified by the donors. Said Wadsworth Atheneum may 
make by-laws to carry into effect the powers hereby conferred. 

Sec. 2. One member of each of the corporations now known as the 
Connecticut Historical Society, The Hartford Library Association, 
and the Trustees of the Watkiuson Library, shall be annually elected 
as members of the board of trustees of the Wadsworth Atheneum, 
which shall consist of eleven members, when hereafter said corpora- 



44 WADS WORTH ATHENEUM. 

tions, by an agreement in writing between them and said Wadsworth 
Atheneum shall make provision for and require the same. 

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect whenever the same is accepted by 
said Wadsworth Atheneum and a copy of such acceptance is lodged in 
the ofl3ce of the secretary of this state. 

Approved, April 18, 1889. — [Special Acts, 1889, p. 982.] 

EXTRACTS FROM THE WILL OF DANIEL WADSWORTH. 

YI. The following statuary and pictures I give and bequeath to 
the corporation called Wadsworth Atheneum, established in Hartford, 
viz. : 1. A portrait of Mr. Sully, done by himself. 2. A Sea View in 
the British Channel, done by Couxe, an Italian, formerly of Salem, 
Mass. 3. The Lady of the Lake. 4. A View of the Falls of Niagara 
from the upper banks, on the British side. 5. A View of the Falls on 
the same side from below the great cascade. Nos. 3, 4, and 5 were done 
by John Trumbull, Esq. 6. A View of the White Mountains in 
New Hampshire, seen eighteen miles southwest from the foot 
of Mount Washington. 7. John the Baptist in the Wilderness. 8. 
A Cascade on the Catskill Mountains. 9. A View of North West 
Bay, on the Winepiseagee Lake, in New Hampshire. 10. A view of 
my Farm called Monte Video, on the mountain in Avon, Connecticut. 
Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 were all done by Thomas Cole, artist. 11. A 
full length portrait, in oil, of Gen. Washington. 12. Two small like- 
nesses, one of Gen. Washington, and theother of his wife, Mrs. Martha 
Washington, being both original pictures, taken in Philadelphia whilst 
Gen. Washington was President of the United States, and known to be 
excellent likenesses, done in colored crayons by Mr. Sharpless, an 
English artist of great reputation, and worthy of most careful preser- 
vation. 13. A Marble Bust of myself, done by Ives. 14. A portrait 
of the last Governor Trumbull, being a copy by Bryant. 15. A por- 
trait of my mother, Mrs. Mehitabel Wadsworth, a copy by Bryant. 
16. A portrait of my father and myself, both in the same picture, a 
copy by Bryant, from an original done by Col. Trumbull in 1784. 17. 
A portrait of my late sister, Mrs. Terry, a copy by Bryant, from an 
original by Sully. 18. A portrait of my father, copied and enlarged 
by Bryant, from an original by Col. Trumbull. 19. A portrait of my- 
self, a copy by Bryant, from an original by Ingham. 20. A portrait of 
Lord Wellington. 21. A painting, the Saviour scourged. 22. A 
painting, the Saviour crowned with thorns, a copy after Rembrandt. 
23. A Fruit Piece, the painter not known. 24. A painting, Boaz and 
Euth, supposed to be an original sketch of the school of Venice. 25. 
A painting by Stuart the Younger, (a dog, horses, and carriage). 26. 
A portrait of a gentleman, painted by Col. Trumbull. 27. Charity, a 
painting copied in Italy from a picture of high reputation in the 
Gallery at Naples. 28. Two Dancing Girls, with pedestals, modeled 
after Canova. 29. A landscape by Charles Lanman of New York. 

30. A portrait of the first Governor Trumbull, done by Col. Trumbull. 

31. A portrait of Col. Humphrey. Part of the foregoing being now 
in the gallery of said corporation. 

VII. I give and bequeath to the Connecticut Historical Society, 
1. A bust of myself, in plaster, painted. 2 A bust of Col. John 
Trumbull, in plaster. 3. A bust of Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, in plaster. 
4. A Bust of Mr. Laurent Clerc, teacher of deaf mutes. 5. A small 
statue of Gen. Alexander Hamilton, in plaster, bronzed. 6. A bust of the 



WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 



45 



late President Day, of Yale College, unless they are otherwise supplied 
with one, in which case I give the same to the Young Men s Institute 
7 Burney's History of Music, in four volumes. 8. A portrait, etc ot 
Distinguished Men of Tuscany, by Allegrine, four volumes. 9 Wal- 
worth's Cathedral of Canterbury. 10. The prints published with 
Cooke's Voyages, most of them in frames. Part of the foregoing i 
have deliveied to the Historical Society. ,. ., ^ 

XXXIII I hereby revoke all former wills and codicils by me exe- 
cuted, and I nominate and appoint the Hon. Thomas S Williams, 
Joseph Trumbull, and Francis Parsons, all of Harttord, Ji.sqs., 
and the survivors and survivor of them to be the executors ot this my 
last will and testament. 

Note — Mr. Wadsworth's will was dated April 10, 1847 ; and pro- 
bated August 5, 1848. It was published in full as a pamphlet soon 
after his decease. SWA 

THE ART GALLERY. 

By the terms of the original charter and donations, the central 
division of Wadsworth Atheneum building was reserved for the 
Atheneum proper. In it the two rooms occupied by the collections of 
paintings and statuary, respectively, were reserved for that purpose. 

As early as February 19, 1844. the Atheneum trustees voted to allow 
the use of the central section of the building for the exhibition of the 
paintings and worke of art purchased by Daniel Wadsworth, David 
Watkinson, James B. Hosmer, and others, "of the late New York 
Academy of Fine Arts," and several other paintings; besides the 
" five large paintings of Revolutionary Subjects, done by the late Col. 
Trumbull for the purchase of which negotiation is begun." It was 
also provided that the net proceeds of the exhibition, less six per 
cent, reserved for the owners of the works, should belong to the 
Atheneum, to be applied toward the purchase of the pictures, etc. 

A " Catalogue of the Paintings noio Exhibiting in Wadsworth Gallery, 
Hartford" (38 pp., 8vo, paper), published in 1844, contains 82 
pieces including two marble busts and one miniature. In it are 
included probably, all the works referred to in the vote above men- 
tioned and some paintings, the property of Daniel Wadsworth, 
besides These latter are mentioned in Mr. Wadsworth's will, in the 
" extracts " quoted in this pamphlet. In the inventory of his estate, 
after his decease. Mr. Wadsworth's " interest " in the Art Gallery was 
appraised at $2,000. In 1855, the trustees of the estate conveyed his 
interest in the works of art, " in said gallery or building," to the cor- 
poration for the consideration of $750. Whether this conveyance had 
reference to any other works than those contained in the bequest, 

does not appear. . . , * » . 

The price asked for the paintings by the New \ ork Academy of Arts 
(as appears from some correspondence on the subject), was $2,500 ; 



46 WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 

but whether this sum was paid for them is not shown. But a lot con- 
taining 53 paintings, 2 pieces of statuary, 10 books, and 17 engravings, 
was purchased at auction by Alfred Smith, for $1,500 ; presumably 
for the Atheneum, for an account of the purchase appears among its 
papers. Other memoranda show that a subscription was raised in 
1855 (?), for the purchase of the woriis in the gallery, for the benefit 
of the corporation. It appears that the following sums were sub- 
scribed : 

By James B. Hosmer, $1,100 By A. W. Butler, $100 

By David Watkinson, 1,000 By William L. Storrs, 100 

By Alfred Smith, 1,000 By Thomas S. Williams, 100 

By Josepli Trumbull, 500 By Thomas Smith, 100 

By Charles H. Braiuard, 150 By R. B. Ward (?), 100 
Total, $4,250. 

In July, 1855, James B. Hosmer, Alfred Smith, and R. B. Ward, for 
a nominal consideration, conveyed their respective interests in the 
" Paintings in the Picture Gallery" to the corporation. The convey- 
ance was upon condition that the Art Gallery be never discontinued, 
nor the paintings be removed therefrom. At this time, as will be seen 
below, there were, or had been, 139 pieces in the gallery. 

The catalogue of 1844 was largely descriptive. Another one, pub- 
lished in 1851, contains a list of 139 pictures, and the descriptions are 
omitted. A third one (the latest) was published in 1868. It contains 
128 pieces, for while the last number on the list is called No. 139, yet 
Nos. 96, 108-112, 114, 135, 136, and 138 are wanting ; eleven pieces in 
all. And it also appears, on comparing the Catalogues of 1844 and 1863 
with each other, that eleven numbers on the former are not on the 
latter catalogue; so that, presumably, eleven pieces have been 
removed from the gallery. On the other hand, some pieces have 
been added since 1863. A late acquisition, whereof the subject is the 
Battle of Mobile Bay, is the outcome of private subscriptions. 

The descriptive portions of the Catalogue of 1863 seem to be a 
reprint of those in the Catalogue of 1844. 

S. W. A. 

THE GALLERY OF SCULPTURE. 

The basis of the collection of statuary is the series purchased from 
the estate of Edward S. Bartholomew, deceased. He was a native of 
Colchester, Conn., and died in Naples, Italy, in May, 1858. He had 
been in charge of the Wadsworth Gallery from 1845 to 1848; and his 
earliest efforts in artwork had been given to painting. 

There is little in the gallery which is entitled to the name of 
"Sculpture." Most of the pieces are models, in plaster, from the 
studies of Mr. Bartholomew, at Rome. There are some busts in 
marble, the gift of Daniel Wadsworth, and a duplicate, in marble, of 



WADSWOETH ATHENEUM. 47 

Bartholomew's Repentant Eve. The latter was purchased from the 
Watkinson fund. 

In 1858, a subscription was opened to raise a fund of $5,000 for 
purchasing and transporting hither the Bartholomew models. The 
following names and amounts appear to have been obtained: 

Samuel Colt, $500; Enoch C. Roborts, $200; James B. Hosmer, 
Thomas S. Williams, and Cheney Brothers, each, $150; Calvin Day, 
Joseph Trumbull, Timothy M. AUyn, Alfred E. Burr, Simeon L. 
Loomis, James Goodwin, Sam. S. Ward, William T. Lee, Marshall 
Jewell, Charles H. ^ortham, Henry Barnard, Joseph Church, Thos. 
M. Day, John A. Butler, Chas. H. Brainard, Julius Catlin, Newton 
Case, Henry M. Keney, Ira Peck, and James G. Battersou, each $100. 
Seven others subscribed $50 each, and thirty-eight $25 each; making a 
total of $4,450. Whether the additional sum of $550, required in 
order to make the proposed amount of $5,000, was raised, does not 
appear. But, at all events, the models were procured; Mr. Batterson 
having, as the agent of the subscribers, visited Rome and brought the 
models thence and deposited them in the Atheneum. 

It is not known that any catalogue of these works has been 
published. 

S. W. A. 

BY-LAWS OP WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 

[Now in force.] 

1. That there be elected annually the following ofBcers of the 
corporation, viz. : A president, two vice-presidents, a secretary, and a 
treasurer. 

2. That said officers and the elective trustees shall be elected from 
members of the corporation by the stockholders in a meeting duly 
called and held, and that such election shall be by ballot. 

3. That a majority of the votes given in shall be necessary to 
constitute an election of said officers and trustees. 

4. That the president, or in his absence one of the vice-presidents, 
shall at all tini€s have power to call a general meeting of the stock- 
holders, and it shall be his duty to call such meeting on the application 
of stockholders holding shares amounting to three thousand dollars. 

5. That the notice to be given of a meeting of the stockholders 
shall be by publication of such notice in one or more of the newspapers 
printed in the city of Hartford, inserted one or more times, the last of 
which shall be on the day of such meeting or the day preceding. 

6. The board of trustees shall appoint such officers and agents as they 
may deem necessary or proper for the due organization of said board, 
and the management of the concerns of the corporation. 

7. The chairman, or in his absence the secretary or clerk of said 
boai'd, shall at all times have power to call a meeting of said l)oard; 
and it shall be his duty to call such meeting on the application of any 
three trustees. Written or printed notice of each meeting of the board 
of trustees shall be regularly sent to every member of the board. 

8. In all meetings of the board of trustees the members present 
shall have an equal vote. 



48 WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 

9. A quorum in the meeting of the board of trustees shall consist 
of at least seven members. 

10. The first meeting of the board of trustees may be called by the 
president of the corporation, or in his absence by one of the vice-presi- 
dents, giving notice thereof similar to that required in other meetings 
of said board. 

11. In all meetings of shareholders hereafter to be holden, a quorum 
shall consist of fifteen shareholders, or shareholders holding shares to 
the amount of at least five thousand dollars. 

12. Transfers of shares in this corporation shall be made in a book, 
to be provided and kept by the secretary for that purpose ; who shall 
also issue certificates of ownership to all persons who are or shall be 
shareholders in such form as the board of trustees may prescribe. 

13. No sale or disposal of any article which may belong to the col- 
lection of the corporation shall be valid, if objected to by one-fourth 
of the trustees present when the vote is taken, unless approved of at 
the next meeting of the shareholders. 

14. The annual meeting of the corporation shall be held on the 
first Friday after the first Monday of June. 

OFFICERS OF WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 

Presidents. 

Thomas Day, 1842-1855. 

John M. Niles, 1855-1856. 

Alfred Smith, 1856-1861. 

Calvin Day, 1862-1883. 

William R. Cone, 1884- (now in office). 

Secretaries. 

Calvin Day, 1842-1861. 

J Hammond Trumbull, 1862-1887. 

William H. Gross, 1888- (now in ofiice). 

Treasurer. 

James B. Hosmer, 1842-1876. 
Jonathan F. Morris, 1877-. 

Trustees. 
For Life, by virtue of having subscribed $500 or more. 
(Those whose names are starred are deceased ) 

* Daniel Wadsworth, 1842-48 * Cyprian Nichols, 1842-53 

* Thomas Day, "-'55 * James Ward, "-'56 

* David Watkinson, " -'51 Henry A. Chittenden," - 

* Thomas S. Williams, " -'61 * Albert W. Butler, " -'58 

* Alfred Smith, "-'68 * James Dixon, "-'73 

* John M. Niles, "-'56 * Albert Day, "-'76 
*Erastus Smith, "-'78 *Koswell C. Smith, "-'7(5 

* James B. Hosmer, "-'78 * John Olmsted, "-'72 

* David F. Robinson, "-'62 -Erastus Collins, "-'80 

* Charles H. Olmsted, " -'78 ^John L. Bos well, " -'54 

* Robert Watkinson, "-'68 Newton Case, "- 



WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 



By Election. 



49 



*William W. Turner, 1842-46; '57-59; '66-73. 

Henry Barnard, 1842-45; '50-'53; '57-'59; '62-67. 
*Gideon Welles, 1842-45; '51-'61 ; '69-73. 
*Thonias C. Perkins, 1842-45. 
*George Burgess, 1842-47. 
*James G. Bolles, l842-'46; •57-'59; '62-'67. 

Roland Mather, 1842-48; '63-74. 
*George Sumner, 1842-46. 
Ezra Clark, Jr., 1842-47. 
*Masoa Gross, 1842-47. 

Georo:e M. Bartholomew, 1842-44; '46-48; '59-62. 
*Calvin Day, 1844-'48; '57-61. 
*Philip Ripley, 1846-49; '51-'55; '58-62. 
*Hezekiah B. Chaffee, 1846-'49. 
*Thomas K. Brace, 1847-49. 
*Daniel P. Crosby, 1847-55. 
*William B. Ely, 1847-51. 
*George Burnham, 1848-51. 
^Christopher C. Lvman, 1848-51; '56-59. 
*Thomas Smith, 1848-51. 
*John Warburton, 1849-51. 
*Elihu Geer, 1849-53. 
*Ellery Hills, 1849-'53. 
*Roswen Brown, 1850-53. 

Philemon F. Robbins, 1851-53. 
*Edward Bolles, 1851-'55. 
*Gurdon Fox, 1851-'53. 
*George Brinley, Jr., 1854-57; '63-68. 
*Ebenezer Flower, 1854-57. 
*Francis Parsons, 1854-57. 
*David Clark, 1854-57; '59-60; '68-75. 
^Waterman Roberts, 1854-57. 
Thomas Belknap, 1854-58; '59-62. 
*Miles A. Tuttle, 1854-58. 
*Roswell B. Ward, 1855-58. 
*Charles H. Brainard, 1855-58. 
*Joseph Church, 1855-58; '68-74. 
*Edson Fessenden, 1860^'62. 
William R. Cone, 1861-62. 
*Simeon L. Loomis, 1861-64. 
*Julius Catlin, 1861-67. 
James G. Balterson, 1862-. 
J. Hammond Trumbull, 1863-'78; '88-. 
*Edward B. Watkinson, 1863-83. 
^William T. Lee, 1863-66. _ 
Nathaniel Shipman, 1863-83. 
Charles J. Hoadlv, 1866-. 
*Samuel Woodruff, 1868-'69. 
♦Marshall Jewell, 1869-78. 
Charles Dudley Warner, 1874-80. 
James L. Howard, 1874-80. 
Francis B. Cooley, 1874-'84. 
Jonathan F. Morris, 1874-. 
Heury C. Robinson, 1875-. 

7 



50 



WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 



John C. Day, 1879—. 
Charles W. Butler, 1879-'87. 
Francis Goodwin, 1880-84. 
*Lucius J. Hendee, 1880-88. 
James B. Cone, 1884-. 
Charles H. Clark, 1884-. 
William H. Gross, 1885-. 
Theodore Lyman, 1885-. 
John C. Parsons, 1889-. 

Note. Absolute accuracy, as to the dates of beginning and ending of 
the respective terms of office of those named in the foregoing list, can- 
not be claimed; since, for want of time, the compilation was made 
from Geer's Hartford Directory, instead of using the manuscript records 
of the Atheneum. But there can hardly be any errors exceeding a 
fraction of a year. 

S. W. A. 



PRESENT SHAREHOLDERS OF WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 



[November, 1889. 



Henry A. Chittenden, 
Newton Case, 
Charles Collins, 
Leonard H. Bacon, 
Philemon F. Robbins, 
Henry Barnard, 
^tna Insurance Co., 
George Beach, 
Geo. M. Bartholomew, 
Ezra Clark, 
Asel Saunders, 
Thomas Belknap, 
George Briuley, 
J. Seymour Brown, 
James G. Batterson, 
J. Hammond Trumbull, 
Henry C. Robinson, 
Nathaniel Shipman, 
Edward W. Parsons, 
Charles J. Hoadly, 
Trinity College, 
Jonath. F. Morris, 
Mrs. Maria Watkinson, 
Thomas M. Day, 
Mary C. Hunt, 
Total, 49 shareholders. 



John C. Parsons, 
John J. McCook, Trustee, 
Mrs. Maria E. C. Strong, 
Miss Mary Lyman Collins, 
William H. Gross, 
Albert H. Olmsted, 
Albert L. Butler, 
Charles W. Butler, 
Henry K. Morgan, 
Charles M. Pond, 
Eliza Trumbull Robinson, 
Mary Alice Robinson, 
Austin Stickney, 
James J. and Francis ) rr * 
Goodwin, [Trustees. 

James J. Goodwin, 
Francis Goodwin, 
Lucius A. Barbour, 
Theodore Lj^man, 
James B. Cone, 
Daniel R. Howe, 
Charles H. Clark, 
John C. Day, 
Jona. F. Morris, Treas., 
John M. Holcomb. 



THE A\^ATE:mSOl:^ LTBBAEY. 



EXTRACTS PROM THE WILL OF DAVID WATKINSON. 

24th. As the Wadsworth Athenaeum in this city needs the further 
aid of its parlicukr friends as well as the patronage of the P^b jc, o 
establish its interest and usefulness on a more permanent basis I dts le 
to bear my part in an effort to effect so desirable an o')]ect The p c- 
tures now in the Gallery of the institution being, for the "^ost Pa. t, 1 e 
property of individuals and subject to their disposa and the c ma- 
nent interests of the institution being incompatible with suclia tenu.e I 
propose, in addition to what I have already done, t<' give to he inst • 
tution one thousand dollars, provided, and on condition that the pc- 
tures known as the Trumbull Pictures, and atleast two-thirds (in value) 
of the other pictures (exclusive of those left f"^^>^l''''''X Ifrouertv of 
dents) shall by purchase, or other arrangement, become tl e Pr^P'^'^,'^' ^/ 
The institution^.- other pictures of equal value substituted in their s^^^ 

If this be complied with at any time within two years atier notice is 
given to said iLtitution of thii my Will then I anthorize J"'^ ri'J ^; 
mv Executors to pay to the Trustees of said Wadsworth Athen.tum 
Te pmpo" ed sum of^one thousand dollars; but otherwise, this proposa 
is to be withdrawn and annulled, and my Executors are to I oceed in 
distributing the said one thousand dollars ^o my/e ations as dnectcj^ 

2.-jth I give and bequeath to the \ ouug Men s Institute of the city 
of Hartford, one thousand dollars, to be permanently ".^^ested in a good 
note or notes of hand, secured by mortgage on ^"^'"JJ^bemi lea 
estate, and the interest or income applied to the u.es and purposes ot 

'^Il5th''''fgive and bequeath to the Connecticut Historical Society in 
the city of Hartford, one thousand dollars, to be permanen ly invested 
n a iood note or no es of hand, secured by mortgage on unincumbered 
rea^ Ltate and the interest and income applied to the usesand purposes 

of said institution. . ^ t^ i, ^ -iAr..iv;nor.n Tipv 

27th. I give and bequeath in trust to Robert Watkinson. Kev. 
Thomas H.^Gallaudet, Rev. Horace Hooker. Alfred SmitJ , Esc^, 
Francis Parsons Esq., Dr. George Sumner, Ezra Clark, Ji., James B 
flosmer, and Alfred 'dill, all of said Hartford, jv to such of them a 
shall accept the trust, with authority in case ^^^y^'^^^f "%\'^^^^^ [j^J 

the remainder to elect othersin their stead, so as, ^^ ",\P' "^; i^^^^IJ'to^ 
Boai'd shall consist of not less than seven members, ^^^d t en surc^^^^^^^^ 
for ever as hereafter provided, the sum ot twenty thousand dollais, 
which fherebv direct the said Trustees and ^^ ^^^^^^^Z^'e 
said to loan out on a good note or notes of hand, secured bj moi gage 
on uni'icumbered reaf estate, and the interest or -come hereof to p^ 
propriate towards the support of indigent orphan childien, or the 



52 THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 

children of indigent parents, or whose parents or guardians are either 
vicious or incompetent to bring them up in virtuous and industrious 
habits. ........... 

Should the design of this legacy not be met in a corresponding spirit, 
and my expectations be disappointed in regard to the required means 
being supplied from other sources to complete the maintenance of the 
children, thus onl}'^ partially provided for, then the Trustees and their 
successors as aforesaid are hereby directed to abrogate and withdraw 
this legacy, and consider it null and void, and thereupon they are to 
divide the fund so entrusted to them of twenty thousand dollars, pro- 
portionally among the ten incorporated institutions before mentioned, 
according to the amounts of my several bequests to them, viz.: — The 
American Home Missionary Society of the City of New York, The 
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, The Ameri- 
can Tract Society of the city of New York, The American Bible So- 
ciety, The American Sunday-school Union, The Retreat for the Insane 
in Hartford, The East Windsor Institute, The Wadsworth Athenajum, 
The Young Men's Institute, and The Connecticut Historical Society. 



Whereas, I have executed my last Will and Testament, bearing date 
the 9th day of March, 1849; and wheieas, I have also duly executed a 
Codicil to my said Will, bearing date loth January, 185U (denominated 
Codicil No. 1), and also another Codicil, bearing date the 11th day of 
April, 1850 (denominated No. 2), and whereas, I wish to make a further 
addition to my said Will; now, therefore, I do make and execute this 
Codicil to my said Will (denominated No. 3), which is to be taken as a 
part of my said Will, and to have equal force and validity therewith, 
to wit: Whereas, I have in my said Will bequeathed in trust to Robert 
Watkinson, Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, Rev. Horace Hooker, Alfred 
Smith, Esq.. Francis Parsons, Esq., George Sumner, M.D., Ezra 
CI irk, Jr., James B. Hosmer, and Alfred Gill, the sum of twenty thou- 
sand dollars, for the support and improvement of indigent orphan and 
other children, on certain principles therein mentioned; and whereas, 
I am desirous of extending the benefits contemplated by said bequest; 
now, therefore, I do bequeath for the same charitable object, in trust, 
to the same Trustees, the further sum of ten thousand dollars, to be 
added to and blended with the said former bequest of twenty thousand . 
dollars, making together a total sum of thirty thousand dollars for this 
special object. — Codicil No. 3, dated 17lh July, 1850. 

Whereas, in my Will I bequeathed twenty thousand dollars to Trus- 
tees therein named for the t)enetit of indigent orphan and other chil- 
dren, and likewise in Codicil No. 3, I bequeath the further sum of ten 
thousand dollars, to the same Trustees for the same object: Now I 
give and bequeath to the same Trustees for the same object, on the 
same prmcipies, and subject to the same rules, conditions, and contin- 
gences, one moiety of what may yet lemain of said surplusage, be the 
j-ame more or less, after paying in full the said two legacies as above 
directed. ........... 

I further direct that a division be made of the other moiety of said 
surplusage, into twenty-five equal portions, neither more nor less, of 
which I give and bequeath one portion to each of the five following 



THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 53 

religious and benevolent institutions, in addition to my former legacies 
to them in my Will, to wit : The Home Missionary (.«'c) of the City of 
NewYork.The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 
The American Tract Society of tiic City of New York, The American 
Bible Society, and the American Sunday-school Union, which said por- 
tions are to be paid to the Treasurers for the uses and purposes of said 
institutions respectively. 

I also give and bequeath to the five following institutions, in addition 
to the legacies in my will, to be invested respectively in good bonds and 
mortgages on unencumbered real estate, and only the interest or income 
to be annually expended, to wit: 

To the Retreat for the Insane, four of said portions. 

To the East Windsor Institute, four of said portions. 

To the Young .Men's Institute, two of said portions. 

To the Connecticut Historical Society, two of said portions. 

To the VVadsworth Athenaeum Gallt'"ry, two of said portions. 

Provided, that the said bequest to the Retreat for the Insane shall 
be appropriated, like the fortner legacy to that Institution, towards the 
salary of a chaplain and the endowment of a school in said Institution. 

Also, I give and bequeath to the Hartford Arts Union, four of said 
portions, and to the Connecticut Society of Natural History in Hart- 
ford, two of said portions, to be invested respectively in the same man- 
ner as the legacies above mentioned, and the interest or income only to 
be expended! — Codicil No. 4, dated 13th November, 1850. 

1st. Whereds in article No. 8, of said Codicil No. 4, I bequeathed 
the balance of my residuary or surplus estate, if any, to certain Trus- 
tees and institutions therein specified; and whereas I design to make, 
not only further bequest from my general estate before any distribution 
whatever is made of my residuary estate, but likewise further special 
bequests from said residuary estate before the final distiibution is made 
of the balance thereof : Now to this end I revoke and annul so much 
of said article No. 8 as bequeaths the balance of said residuary estate 
to the Trustees and institutions therein specified, and in lieu thereof, I 
bequeath to all the same Trustees and institutions named in said article 
No. 8, to wit: The trustees for the benefit of Indigent Orphan and 
other children and twelve other diveis institutions, to be apportioned 
among them in like manner and on the same principles and conditions 
as mentioned therein, such balance only of my residuary or surplus 
estate as may remain, if any, after paying successively in full, firstly, 
the legacies in full to pay my nephews and nieces in article No. 7, of said 
Codicil No. 4; secondly, the. legacies in full to Rev. Doctor Joel Hawes 
and the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet in article No. 8, of said Codicil 
No. 4; thirdly, the legacies in full bequeathed in the following articles; 
and fourthly, the legacies in full which I may hereafter from time to 
time bequeath. — Codicil No. 5, dated 5th June, 1851. 

Whereas I have executed my last Will and Testament bearing date 
March Ninth, A. D. 1849, and also annexed sundry Codicils thereto, 
viz. : — from No. 1 to No. 10. Now, I do hereby declare and establish 
this instrument as an additional Cocicil (No. 11), to my last Will and 
Testament. 

Article I. Whereas, in my last Will and said Codicils, some or 
all of them, after giving, devising and bequeathing therein certain def- 
inite and specific gifts'! devises and bequests, I have directed sundry 



54 THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 

gifts, devises or bequests to be paid out of the surplus, or residue, or 
surplusage, or residuary estate, or balance of my residuary estate, or 
residuum of my estate however described, I do uow by this further 
Codicil, to wit, the Eleventh to said Will, revoke and annul each, all 
and every of the aforesaid gifts, devises and bequests made payable out 
of such surplus or residue or surplusage or residuary estate or balance 
of my residuary estate or residuum, contained in said Will and Testa- 
ment and ten Codicils or in any or all of them. 

Article II. And whereas in my said Will and Testament and in 
said Codicils or in some or all of theni, I have given, devised and be- 
queathed certain sums or portions to the East Windsor Institute and to 
the Retreat for the Insane, to the Young Men's Institute, to the Con- 
necticut Historical Society, to the Wadsworth AtheniBum, to the Hart- 
foid Arts Union, and to the Connecticut Society of Natural History in 
Hartford, and to the Home Missionary Society of the City of New 
York, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the 
American Tract Society of the City of New York, the American Bible 
Society, and the American Sunday-school Union, to the Widows So- 
ciety of Hartford, to the Dissenting Church of Lavenham in the County 
of Suffolk, England, — to be paid out of my residuary estate, I do 
hereby revoke and annul said gifts, devises, bequests and portions to 
said Societies and Institutions above specified, and each and every of 
the same contained in said Will and Codicils or any or either of tlum, 
so far as the same are to be paid out of the surplusage of my residuary 
estate or residuum however described. 

Article III. And whereas in and by said Will and Codicils, I have 
also given, devised and bequeathed to Trustees therein named, certain 
sumsor portions for the benefit of Indigent Orphan and other children. 

I do hereby revoke and annul all said gifts, devises and bequests to 
said Trustees for the benefit of said Indigent Orphan or other children 
contained in said Will and Codicils any or either of them, and in place 
and lieu of said gifts, devises, bequests or portion hereby revoked and 
annulled, I do now in this further and Eleventh Codicil to my said 
Will, give and bequeath to my Executors to be by them paid to 
the same Trustees named, in behalf of said Indigent Orphan and other 
children, in clauses hereby revoked, and to the survivors and survivor 
of them, the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), for the same 
object on the same principles, and subject to the same rules, conditions 
and contingencies expressed in my Will and Codicils relative to the 
bequests and legacies annulled and revoked in this article, intending 
by this bequest in equal proportions, to aid the Hartford Orphan Asy- 
lum and the Female Beneficent Society in their united or separate 
action. . .......... 

Article XII. I do also give and bequeath to my Executors, in 
trust, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars (*;100.000), to be by 
them paid over to Alfred Smith, James B. Hosmer, William L. Storrs, 
Robei-t Watkinson, Henry Barnard, second, William K. Cone, James 
Dixon. George Brinley, Jr., and Thomas H. Seymour, or such of them 
as shall be living at tlie time of my decease, together with the Gover- 
nor of this State, the President of the Connecticut Historical Society, 
the President of Wadsworth Athenaeum, and the President of the 
Young Men's Institute, the last four for the time being, and ex officio. 
The above named persons, and the survivoi-s and successors of them, 
together with such Governor, and Presidents of SMid Society, Athe- 
DiEum and Institute, for the time being, are to be a Board of Trustees, 
fox the purpose and with the power of receiving, investing, managing, 



THE W ATKINSON LIBRARY. 55 

and from time to time appropriating and applying as herein directed, 
all monej'S given or bequeathed to them in this Codicil, in accordance 
with the directions herein given and particularly for the purpose of 
establishing in connexion with the Connecticut Historical Society a 
Library of Reference, to be accessible at all reasonable hours and times 
to all citizens and other residents and visitors in the btate of Connecti- 
cut, under such control, rules, and regulations, as in the judgment 
of said Trustees, and of their successors, as will best secure the pre- 
servation of the books composing such Library, and comport with the 
general convenience, and also for the other purposes hereinafter speci- 
fied, and with power to till any vacancy in their number, whether 
caused by death, resignation, incapacity, or removal out of the State. 
And my Will is that as soon after my decease as can reasonably be 
done, said Trustees do become incorporated under an Act of the Gen- 
eral Assembly, or due authority of law, in order to carry out the ob- 
jects of this bequest as a Corporation, which Corporation shall receive 
the proceeds of said bequest, and manage and use the same in accord- 
ance with my directions in this Codicil. 

Article XIII. The trusts for and upon which the aforesaid prop- 
erty, rights and interests are to be conveyed to said Trustees, and the 
uses and purposes to which the same shall be devoted, and to which 
the income thereof shall be applied, are the following : 

First. A principal sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) together 
with the accumulating interest thereon, to aid the Connecticut Histori- 
cal Society in extending their division of the Wadsworth AthenfEum, 
or in adding to the rooms of said Society, or otherwise enlarging their 
accommodations, for said Library of Reference in convenient connex- 
ion with the books, manuscripts, and collections of said Historical So- 
ciety, the plan of such addition, extension, or enlargement of accom- 
modations, being first approved by the Trustees. And should the 
whole of such principal sum and accumulated interest not be required 
for building and fitting up such extension, addition or enlargement, then 
the balance shall constitute a fund to be called the Building Fund, the 
income of which shall be applied to keeping the premises in proper 
repair. 

Second. A principal sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), shall 
be set apart, out of said sum of one hundred thousand dollars, as a 
Librarian Fund, the income only of which shall be applied to pay the 
salary of a Librarian, who shall be appointed by the Connecticut His- 
torical Society with the approval of my Trustees and their successors, 
and of such assistants as shall be needed, provided said Society shall 
cause or procure to be set apart a like principal sum of fifteen thousand 
dollars, the income of both which suras, or so much thereof as shall 
be needful, shall be applied to pay the salary of such Librarian, and 
the services of such assistants, or, if such Historical Society, instead 
of procuring said like sum of fifteen thousand dollars as above, shall 
appropriate and cause to be paid an annual sum of not less than one 
thousand dollars ($1,000), to be added to the annual income of the first 
named fifteen thousand dollars set apart as above out of this my be- 
quest, then and in that case both said annual income and said annual 
one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be needful, shall be 
applied to the salary and payment of such Librarian and assistants. 
Should the whole annual income and annual amount above prescribed 
not be required for the salary and payment of such Librarian and assist- 
ants, the surplus may be expended in purchasing a Catalogue, an An- 



56 THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 

nual Report, and other Collections by the Library of Reference and 
I he said Historical Society. 

Third. A principal sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) and the 
accumulating interest thereon, shall be devoted to, and from time to 
time expended for, the purchase of models, casts, and specimens of 
art, to be donated to Wadsworih Athena'um, and placed in their Stat- 
uary Room. 

Fourth. The residue of said sum of one hundred thousand dollars 
($100,000), and of any other portion of my estate which may become 
payable and to be paid to the Trustees named in Article XII of this 
Codicil, shall constitute a Library Fund, the income of which only 
shall always be applied to the following objects: 

1. A yearly sum, not exceeding live hundred dollars (|500) in any 
one year, may be appropriated and applied by said Trustees to the 
purchase of books for circulation, and be donated to the Library of the 
Hartford Young Men's Institute, or to some other Library of similar 
character in the City of Hartford, at the discretion of said Trustees, 
their successors, etc., provided a sum equal to that appropriated by, 
and paid out of, this bequest, shall be applied during the same year by 
the Library receiving the same, to tlie purchase of other books, ap- 
proved by the Trustees or a committee by them appointed. 

2. A yearly sum, not exceeding live hundred dollars ($500) in any 
one year, may be applied by said Trustees to or towards the purchase 
of some worli or works of art for, and donated to, the Wadsworth 
Athenteum, provided a further sum equal to that applied out of this 
bequest shall in the same year be appropriated by the Wadsworth 
Athenaeum for the same or similar purposes. 

3. The residue of the net annual income of the Library Fund shall 
be applied to the purchase of books for a Library of Reference (and 
not of circulation), to be kept in rooms of, or in convenient connexion 
with, the Connecticut Historical Society, for consultation, but not to 
be removed therefrom except on the written permission of the Trustees, 
designated in Article XII of this Codicil, or their successors. 

Ahticle XIV. The following conditions are to be observed in re- 
lation to the investment, management, and account of the Library 
Funds hereby instituted. 

1. All moneys received as principal are to be invested as speedily as 
may be consistent with safety in permanent securities. 

2. All permanent investments are to be made in bonds and mort- 
gages, on unencumbered real estate, of twice the value of the amount 
loaned, or in stocks of the United States, or of the State of New York 
or of Massachusetts or Connecticut, or in the bonds or stocks of the 
City of Hartford or of New Haven, or New York, or Boston, or in 
such other securities as shall be authorized by the Judge of Probate for* 
the Probate District of Hartford. 

3 The securities which may be conveyed to the Trustees, and all 
investments and change of investments, all payments of principal and 
interest, and all expenditures on account of this trust, shall be entered 
in a book or books, in which shall also be entered a printed copy of 
this portion of my Will, together with a printed copy of any act of in- 
corporation under which said Trustees shall become organized, and of 
the by-laws which may from time to time be adopted by the Trustees 
or their successors, for their government. An annual report of the 
condition of the Fund and Library shall be published for the informa- 
tion of the public. And a catalogue shall be prepared and published 



THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 57 

from time to time to make the contents of the Library available to per- 
sons resorting thereto. 

Article XIX. In the event of any surplus and remainder of my 
property after all gifts, legacies and bequests provided for in my last 
Will and Codicils, including this eleventh Codicil, and all legal 
charges on the settlement of my estate are discharged, I do hereby give 
and bequeath the surplus and residuary estate to my Executors to be 
by them paid over and conveyed to the Trustees created by Article 
XII of this present eleventh Codicil, for the management of the one 
hundred thousand dollars (|100,000) hereinbefore given for a Refer- 
ence Library, etc , in trust, for the same uses and purposes, and to be 
managed and applied in the same manner as is herein provided in 
respect to said one hundred thousand dollars. — Codicil No. 11, dated 
10th October, 1855. 

Article V. After paying in full all my bequests aforesaid, if a 
surplus or residuum of my estate should still lemain, my Will is, to 
have one half of such surplus paid over to my Trustees, designated in 
Article twelve of my eleventh Codicil, for the purposes of said Library 
of Reference; and the other half of said surplus paid over to my Trus- 
tees designated in Article V of the same eleventh Codicil, the latter 
half to be applied by them to any one or more of the several objects 
entrusted to tlie latter Trustees, and in such proportions among them 
as they shall think best. And I empower both or either of the Board 
of Trustees above referred to, to expend the whole or any part of the 
principal sum of this surplus (if there be one) for the objects intended, 
or to invest the same, or any part thereof, for future income for said 
objects, according to their judgment of what is best. 

Article VII. If the Trustees designated in Article XII of my 
eleventh Codicil, think it desirable and expedient to acquire books for 
the Library of Reference, and to pay for them out of the principal sum 
of my becjuest to them, I authorize them to use and expend for that pur- 
pose, any amount, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or any larger 
sum, provided it shall not exceed in the whole, twent}' per cent, of the 
principal sum which shall come to their possession or control from my 
becpiest to them. But if contrary to my wish and expectation, the 
whole atuouut bequeathed to said Trustees shall prove to be less than 
one hundred thousand dollars, then the sums that may be expended 
for books out of the principal of such bequests are to be proportionally 
reduced. 

Article VIII. I hereby add to the Trustees of the Library of Ref- 
erence, designated in Article XII of my eleventh Codicil, Ezra Clark, 
senior, and Alfred Gill, James H. Wells, and Edward B. Watkinson, 
and the President of Trinity College for the time being. — Codicil No. 
12, dated 17th October, 1855. 

Article XL As to any legacy, legacies or surplusages that shall 
revert or come back to my estate, my will is, that they be added to 
and form part of the residuum or surplus of my estate, and be paid 
over to the Trustees named or designated in Article fifth, of my twelfth 
Codicil, to be used and appropriated as directed in said Article fifth of 
Codicil Xll. — Codicd No. 18, dated 23d April, 1856. 

Article VII. By request of Alfred Watkinson, I hereby annul 
his appointment in my Will as Trustee for the three children of my 
late brother William, and I appoint George M. Bartholomew, to be in 
his stead my Trustee for said children. 

I also appoint and add said Bartholomew to be one of the Trustees 
for The Hartford Library of Reference, The Hartford Hospital, and 



58 THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 

for The Juvenile Asylum and Farm School, all mentioned in Codicils 
to my Will. 

Article VIII. And •whereas <rrcat fluctualions and depreciations 
have taken place in sundrj' portions of my estiite, 1 hereby declare, and 
my will is, that if my estate shall not be sufficient to pay in full all the 
^ifts, learacies, bequests and devises, contained or specified in my Will 
and Codicils, then there shall be deducted ratably from each of my 
gifts, bequests or legacies, to, or to Trustees for the use or benefit 
of all persons related b}'^ blood to me or to my late wife, so much as 
shall be needful to admit of paying in full my bequests or devises now 
in force to all other Trustees or persons for the benefit of the Hartford 
Hospital, Library of Reference, and other persons, societies, or institu- 
tions, mentioned in my Will or Codicils. 

Provided, that not more than thirty per cent, shall be deducted for 
the above purpose from my bequests to, or for, the benefit of the said 
relatives of myself and my late wife, and that notliing be deducted 
from any legacy or bequest which does not exceed three hundred 
dollars in amount. 

Article IX. If the above reduction of thirty per cent, from lega- 
cies to relations shall not leave sufficient estate to pay and make good 
the amounts bequeathed to or for the use of the Hartford Hospital, and 
all other Corporations, Trustees, Institutions, and Societies, then my 
Will is that my bequest of forty thousand dollars shall be fully paid to 
said Hartford Hospital; and the other corporations, Trustees, Institu- 
tions and Societies, shall be proportionally reduced. — Codicil No. 15, 
dated 28d October, 1857. 

Note. — Mr. Watkinson died Dec. 13, 1857, and the will was pro- 
bated on the 17th of the same month. It was published, in full, as a 
pamphlet, in 1858 ; and it is from the pamphlet that the foregoing ex- 
tracts are taken. Parts of codicils 11, 12, and 15 were also printed in 
a pamphlet published by the Watkinson Library in 1859 ; but not so 
much as is herein contained. 

A memoir of Mr. Watkinson was read by Henry Barnard, LL.D., 
before the Connecticut Historical Society, Feb. 2, 1858, and a part of 
said memoir was published with the pamphlet of that year above men- 
tioned. S. ^^\ A. 

INCORPORATING THE TRUSTEES OP THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 

Whereas, The late David Watkinson, of Hartford, by his last will 
and testament and codicils thereto, since duly proved and approved, 
created a board of trustees, consisting of Alfred Smith, James B. 
Hosmer, William L. Storrs, Robert Watkinson, Henry Barnard, 2d, 
W^illiam R. Cone, James Dixon, George Brinley, Jr., Thomas H. 
Seymour. Ezra Clark. Sen., Alfred Gill, James H. Wells, hdward 
B. Watkinson, and George M. Bartholomew, or such of- them as 
should be living at the lime of his decease, together with the Gov- 
ernor of the State, the President of the Connecticut Historical So- 
ciety, the President of the Wadsworth Athena'um, the President of 
the Hartford Young Jlen's Institute, and the President of Trinity 
College, the last five for the time being, and ex officio: which per- 
sons above named, and the survivors and successors of them, together 



THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 59 

with such Governor and presidents, were by said will and codicils 
created and declared to be a board of trustees, for the purpose and 
with the power of receiving, investing, managing, and from time to 
time appropriating and applying as therein directed, all moneys 
given or bequeathed to them in said will and codicils, in accordance 
with the directions therein given, particularly for the purpose of es- 
tablishing, in connection with the Connecticut Historical Society, a 
library of reference, to be accessible, at all reasonable hours and 
times, to all citizens and other residents and visitors in the State of 
Connecticut, under such control, rules and regulations as in the 
judgment of said trustees and their successors will best secure the 
preservation of the books composing said library, and comport with 
the general convenience; and also for purposes thereinafter speci- 
tied; and with power to till any vacancy in their number, whether 
caused by death, resignation, incapacity, or removal out of the State; 
also in the same codicil directing, that as soon after his, the said tes- 
tator's, decease as can reasonably be done, said trustees do become 
incorporated, under an rfct of the General Assembly, or due authority 
of law, in order to carry out the objects of said bequest, and to man- 
age and use the same in accordance with his directions in said cod- 
icil. 
And ichereas, by several of the codicils relating to said library of ref- 
erence, said Watkinson bequeathed to his executors in trust for said 
trustees, a sum or sums of money, the amount of which cannot be 
de.ermined or ascertained until a sale of said testator's property and 
a settlement of his estate shall be duly made, and also gave sundry 
directions or permissions to the trustees to apply the sums bequeath- 
ed, to the objects of enlarging the accommodations of the said His- 
torical Society, or adding to their rooms, for said library of refer- 
ence; of a librarian fund; of purcbasing models, casts, and speci- 
mens of art, to be donated to the Wadsworth Athena'um; of pur- 
chasing, to a limited amount, out of the principal sum of said be- 
quest, books for said library of reference; and of constituting a li- 
brary fund, the income of which only to be applied for the pur- 
poses specified in said codicil or codicils; together with sundry di- 
rections therein as to making investments, keeping acccounts of 
payments and expenditures, publishing an annual report for the in- 
formation of the public, and preparing and publishing, from time to 
time, a catalogue of said library, and other provisions, as set forth in 
said will and codicils, or any of them, a printed copy whereof is 
here present, to be kept on file in the office of the Secretary of State, 
to which reference may and is to be had ; therefore, 

Resolved by tlds Assembly, Sec. 1. That Alfred Smith, James B. 
Hosmer, William L. Storrs, Robert Watkinson, Henry Barnard, 2d, 
William R. Cone, James Dixon, George Brinley (late junior), Thomas 
H. Seymour, Ezra Clark, Sen., Alfred Gill, Edward B. Watkinson, 
and George M. Bartholomew, being the survivors of the persons indi- 
vidually named as trustees in said will and codicils, together with the 
Governor of Connecticut, the president of the Connecticut Historical 
Society, the president of the Wadsworth Alheufeum, the president of 
the Hartford Young Men's Institute, and the president of Trinity Col- 
lege, the last five, for the time being, and ex officio, and their succes- 
sors in said trust, be and they hereby are created and constituted a 
body politic and corporate, by the name of the " Trustees of the Wat- 
kinson Library," by which name they may sue and be sued, contract 



GO THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 

and be contracted with, have, use, and at pleasure alter a common 
seal, be known in all courts and other places, and do all acts and things 
proper to such trustees. 

Sec. 3. Said trustees shall and may receive from the executors of 
said will and the codicils to the same, all such moneys or other things be- 
queathed to or intended for said trustees by the testator, or as shall be 
donated to them by others; shall hold, invest, manage, apply, and ap- 
propriate, all such moneys or other things; shall keep accounts, pub- 
lish reports or statements, fill vacancies, make rules, regulations, and 
by-laws, and do all other lawful acts and things necessary or expedient 
to carry out the objects of said bequest, in accordance with the true 
intent and meaning of said testator. Said trustees shall have power to 
choose a president, a secretary or secretaries, a treasurer, and such 
other officers as they shall find necessary or expedient; to unite with 
the said Historical Society in providing rooms for the library of refer- 
ence and appointing a librarian, and in all other things necessary or 
expedient, and all in accordance with the will, codicils, and intention 
of said testator; also, to detei mine the times and places of all stated or 
special meetings of said trustees, and the notice that shall be given of 
holding the same, and in general, to determine, by votes or by-laws, 
all matters relative to the mode and manner of carrying out the inten- 
tions of said testator, in accordance with said will and codicils. 

Sec. 3. Tlie funds, properly, and estate which may be granted to 
or held by said corporation for the uses above specified, shall, with the 
income thereof, be exempt from taxation. 

Sec. 4. This act may be altered, amended, or repealed at the pleas- 
ure of the general assembly. 

Approved June 8, 1858. — [Private Acts, May session, 1858.] 

Note. — It will be seen that James H. Wells, who had been named 
by Mr. Watkinson as one of the Trustees, had died before the passage 
of the Act of incorporation ; and therefore his name is not included 
among the charter members. S. W. A. 

AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TRUSTEES OP THE WATKIKKON 

LIBRARY. 

Besolved by this Assembly : The Trustees of the Watkinson Library 
are authorized to fill any vacancy in their board by electing as one of 
said trustees the Mayor of the City of Hartford, for the time being, 
and ex officio ; anything in the charter of said trustees to the contrary 
notwithstanding. 

Approved, March 8, 1882. — [Primte Acts, 1882, p. 370.] 

[statement op J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL, LL.D., LIBRARIAN.] 

Watkinson Library op Reference, 

Hartford, Conn., April 12, 1876. 
Dr. E. K. Hunt, Commissioner, cDc. 

3fy Dear Sir : In compliance with your request, I give the follow- 
ing brief account of the Watkinson Library, in its relations to other 
agencies of public instruction in this city. 

Its honored founder, Mr. David Watkinson, a merchant of Hartford, 
who died in 1857, bequeathed to trustees $100,000 and a co residuary 



THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 61 

interest in bis estate "for the purpose of establishing, in connection 
with the Connecticut Historical Society, a Library of Reference, to be 
accessible at all reasonable hours and times to all citizens, and other 
residents, and visitors in the State of Connecticut." The trustees 
named by the will were incorporated by an act of legislature in May, 
1858. A building was erected, adjacent to and directly communicat- 
ing with the main hall of the Historical Society, and by the purchase 
of the Wadsworth mansion and grounds, adjoining the site of the new 
building, ample provision was made for the future enlargement of the 
library. The present librarian was appointed in 1862, and the purchase 
of books was begun the same year. At the date of the last annual 
report, Dec. 14, 1875, the whole number of volumes in the library was 
26,788. The total amount expended for books to that date was 
$63,143.58. In the course of settlement of Mr. Watkinson's estate, 
payments made by the executors, on account of the residuary interest, 
have increased the library fund to $117,612.77. The annual appropria- 
tion for tlie purchase of books is about $5,000. 

The Connecticut Historical Society has a central and convenient 
location, on Main Street, in thesouth wingof the Wadsworth Atheneum. 
The central division of the Atheneum is appropriated, under the trust 
deed of the founder, Mr. Daniel Wadsworth, to a Gallery of Fine Arts ; 
and the north wing, to the library and reading rooms of the Young 
]\Ien's Institute. The Historical Society's library now contains about 
16,000 volumes, exclusive of the Society's large and very valuable 
collection of manuscripts, bound and unbound. The library of the 
Institute is maintained by annual subscriptions of the members as a 
circulating library. Mr. Watkinson authorized his trustees to appro- 
priate $500, yearly, from the income of the Watkinson Library fund, 
to the purchase of books for the library of the Institute, and this 
appropriation has been regularly made since 1861. He authorized also 
the annual appropriation of $500 to the purchase of works of art for 
the gallery of the Atheneum. 

For purposes of consultation, the Watkinson and the Historical 
Society's libraries are virtually one, with an aggregate of about 43,000 
volumes designed for reference, and are supplemented by the Institute 
library of circulation, no^v increased, bj^ favor of Mr. Watkinson's 
bequest and generous donations by other citizens, to about 26,000 
volumes. 

In the general plan of the Watkinson Library, the trustees aimed to 
give effect to the obvious intention of the founder, in making provision 
for a library which should be — not merely by its location — "accessible 
to a^^c?<i>«;/(S and other residents of Connecticut." The selection of books 
has been made with a constant regard to practical value and general 
utility, rather than toraritj' or to the amusement of visitors. The library 
lias been considered as, in the highest sense, an educational agency ; 
and the expenditure of the annual appropriations has been directed to 
the purchase of such books as seemed most likely to be useful to the 
greater number of readers. The proximity of the State Library has 
relieved the trustees of the necessity of providing works of refer- 
ence on law and legislation ; and Trinity College library, conveniently 
accessible, provides for the wants of other classes of professional 
students. 

In avoiding exclusiveness, the trustees have endeavored not to fall into 
the opposite error of too great conqirchensiveness, by attempting to cover, 
with their limited income, the illimitable area of human knowledge. 



62 THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 

Undue expansion, in shallows, is an evil to be guarded against, as well 
as undue contraction, in channels too narrow for general use. Here as 
in all else, the wants of citizens and residents have been had in view. 
Some departments must necessarily remain deficient, that others may 
be made approximately complete. 

In helps to reading, comprising the works commonly denominated 
' ' books of reference " — encyclopaedias, dictionaries, gazetteers, etc. , — 
the library, as compared with other American libraries, is well supplied. 
In bibliography, — books about books, — to working readers, one of the 
most important departments of a reference library, there are already 
about 2,000 volumes. With special reference to the business interests of 
Hartford, the collection of books on Political Economy, Trade, Finance, 
Currency, Insurance, and on all departments of Social Science, is very 
considerable. In the Arts and Sciences, and particularly in the useful 
Arts and applied Sciences, the Watkinson Library is perhaps as well 
furnished as any other public library of the same number of volumes 
in this country. Particular attention has been given to the growth of 
the departments of general history ; the history of Europe ; general 
and local history of Great Britain ; the history of religions, and com- 
parative mythology ; the English language, its origin and proximate 
relations, its early literature, and its classics ; and the classics of Ger- 
man, French, Spanish, and Italian literature. 

While the Watkinson Library offers to all classes advantages for the 
prosecution of special studies as well as for the acquisition of general 
information, it has tbus far been most used by those connected with the 
various educational institutions. The professors and students of Trinity 
College, the instructors of public and private schools and their more 
advanced pupils, are the most frequent visitors at the Library. It 
seems already to have established its place among — and is entitled to be 
regarded as —one of the free schools of our city. 

I am, my dear Sir, very truly yours, 

J. Hammond Trumbull, 
Librarian {and a Trustee) of the Watkinson Library. 

Note. — The annual report of the Treasurer of the Watkinson Li- 
brary, for 1888, shows that the funds of the corporation then amounted 
to $84,068.92 ; and the real estate was estimated at $16,782.46 ; mak- 
ing a total of assets (exclusive of the library, etc.,) of $100,851.38. Of 
this, a portion, $8,319.23, had accrued from the bequest of the late 
Mr. Sydney Stanley, who, dying in 1878, had left the sum of about 
$7,000 to the library. 

The librarian's report of the same date shows that the whole number 
of " registered" volumes then in the library was 42,521 ; being an in- 
crease of 369 volumes over the number in the preceding year. There 
had been expended for the Watkinson Library from the beginning, 
$92,525.33, and for the Hartford Library Association, $12,000. 

S. W. A. 



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BY-LAWS, ADOPTED DECEMBER, ]8o8. 

(With subsequent amendments.) 

1. MEETINGS. 

1. An Annual Meeting of the Trustees shall be held on the second 
Tuesday in December, at 3 o'clock, p. m., for the choice of officers, 
and the transaction of other business. 

2. Special meetings shall be called by the President at his option, or 
at the written request of two trustees; or in his absence or inability to 
act, by the Secretary, upon the like request. 

3. Written or printed notice of every meeting shall be given to each 
Trustee by the Secretary, by addressing the same to each through the 
post-office at Hartford, at least three days before such meetings. 

4. All meetings shall be held at the office of the Trustees, unless 
otherwise specially directed by the President. 

5. [Five] Trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of 
business; but any smaller number may adjourn. 

6. The yeas and nays upon any vote shall be recorded, upon the re- 
quest of any member. 

3. OFFICEKS. 

1. The officers shall be a President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Fi- 
nance Committee of three members, [and an Auditing Committee,] 
who shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting, and shall hold 
their offices for one year, or until others are chosen in their places : 
Provided, that if there l)e a vacancy, or if the annual meeting shall not 
take place, snch officers may be chosen at a special meeting. 

2. The President shall preside at all meetings, preserve order therein, 
give the casting vote, and perform the other usual duties of that office. 
In the absence of the President, those present shall elect one of their 
number to preside over the meeting in his stead. 

3. The Secretary shall notify all meetings of the Trustees, and keep 
a fair and full record of all proceedings therein. 

4. The Treasurer shall keep the accounts of the Trustees, and shall 
collect, receive, and have custody of all real estate, moneys, and vouch- 
ers belonging to them; shall pay no bills beyond current expenses, but 
such as shall have been audited by the Trustees, or a committee ap- 
pointed for that purpose, and countersigned by the President or a 
committee of the Trustees. He shall render a detailed account of the 
condition of the property in his charge at the annual meeting, and 
whenever required to do so by the Trustees. 

5. The Finance Committee, of whom the Treasurer shall be one, 
and be chairman, shall have the management and investment of the 
funds. 

3. VACANCIES. 

Any vacancy occurring in the Trustees by death, resignation, or 
otherwise, shall be tilled by ballot at a meeting specially called for that 
purpose. 



64 THE W ATKINSON LIBRARY. 

4. ANNUAL REPORT. 

Aa annual report of the condition of tlie fund and library shall be 
published for tlie information of the public. — [From the pamphlet con- 
taining the Charter etc., published in 1883.] 

OFFICERS OF THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 

(Exclusive of such as are so ex officiis.) 
Presidents. Secretaries. 

Alfred Smith, 1858-'68. Edward B. Watkinson, 1858-84. 

George Brinley, 1868-75. Charles H. Clark, 1884-87. 

Wm. R. Cone, 1875- James B. Cone, 1888- 

Treasurers. 

George M. Bartholomew, 1858-86. 
Rowland Swift, 1887- 

Trustees. 

* Alfred Smith, 1858-68. Roland Mather, 1860- 

* James B. Hosmer. 1858-78. * Ebenezer K. Hunt, 1862-89. 

* Wm. L. Storrs, 1858-'61. * Collins Stone, 18G7-70. 

* Robert Watkinson. 1858-67. Rowland Swift, 1868- 
Henry Barnard, 1858- *Geo. H. Clark, 1868-81. 
AVm. R. Cone, 1858- * James C. Jackson, 1868-'83. 

* James Dixon, 1858-73. Nathaniel Shipman, 1875- 

* George Brinley, 1858-75. Francis Goodwin, 1875- 
*Thos. H. Seymour. 1858-68. Austin C. Dunham, 1875- 
*Ezra Clark. Sen., 1858-'69. Chas. Hopkins Clark. 1882- 

* Alfred Gill, 1858-59. Theodore Lyman, 1882- 

* Edward B. Watkinson. 1858-'84. James B. Cone, 1886- 
George M. Bartholomew, 1858-'86. Jacob L. Greene, 1886- 

NoTE. — The first thirteen names in this list of Trustees are those of 
the testamentary members ; the rest are elective. The Hon. J. Ham- 
mond Trumbull, LL.D., has been the librarian from the beginning" 
(1862), and, ex officio, a Trustee from 1863 to 1889. S. W. A. 

* Deceased. 



VI. 

THE CONNECTICUT SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



INCOEPORATING THE CONNECTICUT SOCIETY OP NATURAL HISTORY.— 
PASSED 1845. 

ResoUed by tJm A.ssemMy, That Charles H. Olmsted. John L. Corn- 
stock Phillip Ripley, Joseph Monds, William W. Turner, Heniy W. 
Terry and those who are or may be hereafter associated with thern 
shall be and remain a body politic and corporate by tiie name of Ihe 
Conneetieul Society of Natural History; and by that name shall be ea- 
rn le of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, may have 
a common selil and aii'er the same at pleasure, may purchase receive, 
hold and convey any estate real or personal, not exceeding five thou- 
sand doHars, J\ nZy establish such by-laws and ^•eff^'^^^l^'is as maj 
be necessary or convenient, not inconsistent with the laws of tins Stat«. 
Provided! th-^t this resolve may at any time be ftered amended or 
repealed at the pleasure of the general assembly.- [Private Acts, 1845. J 
jYote—This Society was orga vised as early as October 8, 1835; at 
which date it was entitled "The Natural History Society of Hartford." 
The Rev. Samuel Farmer Jarvis, D.D., LL.D., then a Professor m 
Washington (now Trinity) College, was its first President, and the late 
Erastus Smith was its Corresponding Secretary. In May, 1833, Dr 
Jarvis delivered an Address before the Society, which was published 
the same year, in a pamphlet of 64 pages, octavo. The same Address 
was later repeated at Wesleyan University. He was a native of Mid- 
dletown Conn , and a son of Bishop Abraham Jarvis. He died at 
Middletown, in 1851, aged 65 years, having achieved a high reputation 
as a scholar and author. 

Prior to the organization of this Society there had existed a collec- 
tion of "paintings, waxwork, natural and artificial curiosities," con- 
stituting "Steward's Museum," first exhibited in the State House, in 
1801 In 1819 (according to Pease and Niles' Gazetteer) it was known 
as The Hartford Museum, and was kept on Main Street, "nearly oppo- 
site the Episcopal Church." In 1825 it was kept by Charles Dicker- 
son "at No. 3 Central Row, up stairs." (See Norton's liegister, for 
that year ) It is understood that some of the specimens illustrative of 
natural history from this Museum were transferred to the rooms of the 
Natural History Society of Hartford, and thus became a part of the 
collection of the Society incorporated as above. 

The collections of this Society must have been placed in the Athe- 

nfEum building very soon after the completion of the latter. Geers 

Directory for 1847, says : "The Natural History Society, with very 

handsome collections, occupy a large room in the first story ot the 

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66 THE CONNECTICUT SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 

south division of the Athenaeum." By the terms of the Act incorpo- 
rating Wads worth Athenaeum " The Natural History Society of Hart- 
ford " was permitted to occupy the part of the building assigned to it 
"on such terms, and to such extent" as the Historical Society should 
"think proper." In fact, the occupancy continued until about 1873, 
when, upon notice from the Historical Society, the collections were 
nearly all removed and stored in the Hartford Hospital, where, with 
the exception of such as have been transferred to Trinity College, they 
remain to-day. 

The Connecticut Society of Natural History was the same institu- 
tion, when incorporated, which had existed as a voluntary association 
(with a slightly different name) since 1835. Mr. Charles H. Olmsted, 
President prior to the incorporation, continued to hold the same office 
for several years after. Whether the Charter has become forfeit by 
non user it is not necessary now to determine. The late Dr. George B. 
Hawley was the latest known Recording Secretary, and may be pre- 
sumed to have left the records of the Society among his effects; but 
whether those records are now extant we are not informed. 
The officers, as far as ascertainable, were as follows: 
Presidents. 

Samuel F. Jarvis, LL.D., 1835-1840. 

Charles H. Olmsted, 1841-1853. 

William W. Turner, 1853-1873. 

Recording Secretaries. 
Erastus Smith, 1835-1843. 
Henry W. Terry, 1844-1846. 
Erastus Smith, 1847-1853. 
William R. Lawrence, 1854-1856. 
John C. CoUiStock, 1857-1858. 
George B. Hawley, M.D., 1859-1873. 

The latest published list of its officers, that of 1872, was as follows: 
President — William W. Turner. 
Vice-Presidents — Henry W. Terry, John S. Butler, and John 

Brocklesby. 
Corresj>onding Secretary — A. W. Barrows. 
Recording Secretary — George B. Hawley. 
Treasurer — George B. Hawley. 
Librarian — Gurdon W. Russell. 
Curator of Ichthyology — Charles H. Olmsted. 
Curator of Ornithology — S. G. Moses. 
Curator of Botany — John P. Brace. 
Curator of Conchology — William W. Turner. 
Curator of Comparative Anatomy — E. K. Hunt. 

A kindred organization. The Hartford Society of Natural Sciences, 
was incorporated in 1885, of which Gurdon W. Russell, M.D., was 
chosen President. What is its present condition is not known to the 
writer. S. W. A. 



VII. 

THE ART SOCIETY OF HAKTEORD. 



ACT OF INCORPORATION. 

SECTION 1. That Mary D. ^^^t^^l,^:^:^'^ 
son, Sarah J. Cowan Mary l^,^o ^^^; j n'es G. Batterson. Edwin P. 
Joseph R. Hawley, Francis ^^""^l^'vY^-lvnev and Henry C. Robin- 
Parker, Frank L. Burr, ^ ^^^^.^^^J.^^^f^i^y rsons who are members of ihe 
son. all of Hartford, together ^^'ll^J' Pf/ godety of Hartford, now lo- 
voluntary association known as The Art bocie^y o i^^^eafier be 

cated in said Hartford, -f^^^'J^.^^Z and they are he,^by 
associated with them, and ^h" ^.^^^^^^'^^^^ w the name of The 
constituted and made a body pol t c and corpoiaie ^ ^^^ 

Art Society of Hartford, .""^^^"^^^.^,£^.'^1' by laws, and make and 

with power to amend saul ^^-^^^.^U as'they shaU deem 

establish such other by-laws, ™'f ',;""*. ^g of said corporation, and 
expedient for the management of the conctinso^^^^^^ F ^^^^^ ^^^^^ 

the^ame to f - jf ^-Pf^..^^ ^4^-^-"" ^^^ inco'nsistent with 
constitution, by-la\\s, i^"'^^' ''^TT-.Tn-rt State'* 

the laws of this state, or of the United btate. ^^ nation shall be, to 
Sec. 2. The purposes and objects 01 sauct. ^^^ ^^^ 

promote and encourage the l^^^jl^.^S^^^^^u he asses and schools for 
Siunity by any pro,.er measure ; ^^^^^^^^^ o \,er purposes, in such 
instruction in art for o™^^^°;,f/. "fi^\fm^,v deem best; to provide 
manner and under such »-^SU lotions as t 11 ^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^ 

for sales of decorative, i^';"^^^,^' J^^^^^ j^ ^^ in Hartford; 

a.ld to, and manage the art gallery now in ^^ ^^ any other 

to establish and maintain ^"7 othei ait .a^^ Y - ^^^^^^ p^vposes. 
acts necessary or desirable to cany out U^e ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^ 

Sec. 3. Said corporation may le^eive,^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^j. 

of at its pleasure, real and personal propei ij lu 
in^ fifty housand dollars at any "^'.^ time. j^ ^^ ^,,jl 

Sec.^4. The first n^^eting of said co poi^^ ^ ^y 

of three of the above °«"^f^«oj^'^!?'eiin^ addressed to each of the 
them, stating ^^^'^^"-/^'iitrrhere'nnd deposited in the post-office 
corporators personally namta J^ejeuj, r ^^ „2;. 

in s?iid Hartford at least V^n^;?Ue efcc^t u^^^^^^^^^ accepted by a 

Sfc 5 This charter shall take cneci upuu 11^ meetin"- or any 

„,l,ii- meeting specm ly <^» '"''"li^'fo,-^^ iiiou, causing a celt fleale 
K\%TccttB:/\" i 'sVSSl a secretary, .0 be Sled to tte 

Z.-^. „.,y ,3, ,inue Of t.e f«re.oi- ^ J nco.po..t.on_. 

rtLt„r;:rH:,rsorxr:i:erso^ 



68 THE ART SOCIETY OP HARTFORD. 

one of the occupants of the Athenpeum building. By an arrangement 
made with the Trustees of the AthensEum the Art Society assumes the 
care of the Art Galleries there, and in consideration thereof said Gal- 
leries are opened to the public, free of any charge for admission there- 
to, on certain days of the week. On other days instruction is given 
there to students in drawing, painting, and sculpture. 

The Society is said to have been first organized as a voluntary asso- 
ciation in 1877; but it does not appear in the Hartford City Directory 
until 1885, at which date Miss Mary D. Ely was its President, and Miss 
Mary L. Collins was its Recording Secretary. Its entire board of 
officers was composed of ladies. 
At present the officers are as follows: 

President — Mary D. Ely. 

Recording Secretary — Mary L. Collins. 

Treasurer — Mrs. F. G. Whitraore. 

Vice-Presidents — Alice Taintor and Mrs. Geo. A. Jones. 

Corresponding Secretary — Miss H. D. Andrews. 

Managers — Mrs. W. H. Palmer, Mrs. J. A. Hodge, Mrs. J. B. 
Cone, Mrs. E. S. Tyler, Miss C. M. Ely, Miss J. Hunt, Miss Mary F. 
Collins, Mrs. F. W. Cheney, Mrs. John M. Taylor, Miss M. C. Root, 
Mrs. T. W. Russell, Mrs. William Thompson, Miss Julia Brace, Miss 
M. D. Ely,Mrs. F. G. Whitmore, Miss Alice Taintor, MissM. L. Collins, 
Mrs. Geo. A. Jones, Miss H. D. Andrews. S. W. A. 



VIII. 
REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEES 

OF 

WADSWORTH ATHEN^UM, THE CONN. HISTORICAL 
SOCIETY, THE HARTFORD LIBRARY ASSO- 
CIATION. AND THE TRUSTEES OF 
THE WATKINSON LIBRARY. 



The committees appointed by the Stocldiolders of Wadswor h 
Athenteum, the Couoeclicut Historical Society, the Trustees of the 
Watkinson Library, and the Hartford Library Association to consider 
plans for alterations in the Wadsworth Athenaeum building with a 
view to the union of the four institutions named, for establishing a 
Free Public Library and Art Gallery, submit the following statement 

^^EaSf of 'these institutions is incorporated under a special charter, 
and holds real and personal property in trust, for specihc uses^ 1 he 
obstacles to absolute union of the four corporations in one, by sur- 
render or merger of the several charters, are obvious, and your Com- 
mittees have not been authorized to consider either the practicability or 
the expediency of such a union: but they are unanimously ot the 
opinion that a more intimate connection of the institutions thev 
represent, for the purpose of establishing a free puWic library of 
reference and circulation and a free art gallery, if practicable, would 
greatly promote ti.e public good and the ends for which these institu- 
tions were severally founded and endowed. _ 

Before suggesting a mode of effecting this connection, and consider- 
in- proposed plans^ for alterations of the buildings, it may be well to 
state, briefly, the existing relations of the several institutions to each 

other and to the public. i .i *^.,of 

• The Stockholders of Wadsworth Athenteum hold, under the trust 
deed of the late Daniel Wadsworth, the land and building occupied by 
the Art Gallery, the Connecticut Historical Society, and the Hartford 
Library Association: and they also own the paintings and statuary 
now in the Art Gallery, their property being i-«Prescnted by stock of 
the nominal value of $29,700. They have a very sma 1 fund at their 
disposal and its annual income, with the addition of receipts trom 
visitors 'has not, for several years past, sufficed to meet the expenses; 
and the gallery could not have been kept open to the public without 
the help of occasional subscriptions by stockholders. _ 

The Connecticut Historical Society, incorporated in 182o, holds, 
under the trust deed of Mr. Wadsworth before mentioned, the south 
division of the Athenceum building and the land eastof it on which the 
building occupied by the Watkinson Library stands. The society has 



70 REPOET OF THE JOINT COMMITTEES. 

a library of more than 20,000 titles, comprising many rare volumes and 
tracts relating to American history (et-pecially the history of Connecti- 
cut) and a large and highly important collection of manuscripts ; a 
museum of objects of historical, ethnological, and antiquarian iuteiesi ; 
and a considerable collection of portraits. The hall is open to all 
visitors, and the use of the Society's library is allowed, under ordinaiy 
restiictions, to the public. The funds of the society — including a 
publication fund of about $3,000 — now amount to about $16,000, the 
income of which, with strict economy, the help of occasional sub- 
scriptions for special purposes, and the payment of annual assess- 
ments (by a few of the meuibeis) has sufficed to meet current expenses 
and tbe cost of publishing two volumes of collection — though without 
supplying means for adding to the library, or for propeily arranging 
its books and manuscripts. 

The Hartford Library Association, incorporated (as the Young 
Men's Institute) in 1839, has. under Mr. Wadsworth's deed of trust, 
the use, tree of rent, of the north division of the Wadswortli 
Athenteum. The Association has a library of about 33,000 volumes, 
and its reading room is well supplied with newspapers, magazines, 
and reviews. It has a fund of about $19,000, principally derived from 
gifts and bequests. Its receipts from fees of membership, etc., were, 
for the year ending June 1, 1883, $2,556. Since 1863, the library has 
received from the Trustees of the Watkinson Library, in accordance 
with a provision of Mr. Walkinson's will, an annual gift of books to 
the value of $500. The accessions to the library from this source now 
represent a total value of $11,000, in books selected principally with 
reference to their permanent usefulness and interest. 

The Watkinson Library was founded and endowed by the late 
Mr. David Watkinson, who died in 1857. He bequeathed to trustees 
the sum of $100,000, with a co-residuary interest in his estate, "for 
the purpose of establishing in connection with the Connecticut 
Historical Society a Library of Reference, to be accessible at all 
reasonable hours and times to all citizens and other residents and 
visitors in the State of Connecticut." The trustees named by Mr. 
Watkinson were incorporated in 1858. The library was opened to the 
public Aug. 28, 1866, with about 12,000 volumes. It now contains 
upwards of 36,000 volumes. The total amount expended for books, 
to December, 1882, was $83,673, not including the payments of 
$11,000 by annual grants to the Hartford Library Association. The 
invested funds, from the bequest of the founder, at the date of the last 
annual report amounted to $102,485.76; to which is to be added the 
Sydney Stanley fund, of $6,361.26, derived from the estate of the late 
Sydney Sianlej', bequeathed to the Trustees, for the increase of the 
library. By the will of the late Mr. George Brinley, President of the 
board of Trustees, the library received a gilt of books from his collec- 
tion, to the value of $5,000. ' 

To provide for the " convenient connection " of the Library of Refer- 
ence with tbat of the Historical Society, Mr. Watkinson bequ(athtd 
to that society, from the library fund, $5,000, "to aid in extending 
their division of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, " or " otherwise enlarging 
their accommodations for said Library of Reference," etc. By mutual 
agreement, this sum was expended on the building now occupied by 
the Watkinson Library, the Historical Society res-erving their prior 
right to the use of a part or all the new building, and the Trustees of 
the Watkinson Library agreeing to vacate it, on the paymint by the 
Historical Society of an equal amount towards the co&l of another 



REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEES. 71 

building. Both libraries have already outgrown the accommodations 
thus provided. The Walkinson Library now contains about 10,000 
volumes more than the original estimate of the capacity of the build- 
ing: and should the Historical Society insist on their right to use the 
upper hall, or part of it, to relieve their own overcrowded shelves and 
cabinets, thousands of volumes in the Watkinson Library must be 
packed in cases or piled on the floors. The erection of a new and 
larger building cannot much longer be postponed, without culpable 
disregard of the obligations imposed by the creation of this noble 
trust. Fortunately, this necessity was foreseen by the Trustees, and 
provision was made for it by the purchase of the Wadsworth properly, 
adjoining the land of the Athenaeum on the east and with a frontage on 
Prospect Street. 

So far as concerns the city of Hartford and the general public, these four 
institutions — occupying contiguous halls and, substantially, under one 
roof, — constitute, collectively, one public library of reference and 
circulation, with an associated gallery of paintings and sculpture and 
a museum of historical and antiquarian curiosities: all founded and 
endowed by the liberality of private citizens, and sustained for many 
years by the untiring effort of those charged with the management of 
tlie several trusts — hitherto, without cost to the city or State. 

The present value of the property so dedicated to public use cannot 
be accurately determined: but your Committees believe that it cannot 
be less than — and that it may considerably exceed — the total shown 
by the following estimate : 

His. Soc. Watkinson Lib. Atlienwum. Hartford Lib. 

150,000 !j;lO0,000 $-3,000 $20,000 

30.000 108,000 30,000 19,000 

15.000 30.000 



195,000 $208,000 $62,000 $39,000 

Libraries: The Watkinson, 36,000 vols. $100,000 

Hartford Library Association, 33.000 " 20,000 

Conn. Historical Society, 20,000 " 50,000 

89,000 vols. $170,000 
Not even an approximate valuation of the manuscripts 
in the Historical Society's library can be made; but 
we have reason to believe that they would bring, at 
public sale, not less than $30,000 

Total value of the libraries, estimated, $200,000 
Invested Funds: Watkinson Library, $108,847.02 

Hartf. Libr. Asso., about 19,000.00 

Conn. Historical Society, 15,000.00 

Wadsworth Athenaeum, 2,000.00 



$144,847 
Real Estate: Wadsworth AthenaeumXtrust), 30,000 

Gallert op Art: Wadsworth Athenaeum, certainly not 

less than 30,000 

Museum of Connecticut Historical Society, not estimated. 



Watkinson Library, Land on Prospect street. 



$404,847 



72 EEPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEES. 

How may these four institutions be so united, under one general 
management — yet ■without surrender of their corporate existence and 
privileges — as to constitute in fact and name a Fkee Public Libraky 
of circulation as well as for reference, and connected with a free Art 
Gallery ? is the question your Committees have to consider. The action 
of the city, in asking, and of the General Assembly at its last session, 
in granting authority to provide by a city tax, for the expenses of 
establishing and maintaining such a library and gallery, makes the 
answer to this question less difficult than it seemed when your Com- 
mittees were first appointed to consider it; 

To effect the proposed union, it will, in the opinion of your Com- 
mittees, be necessary, — 

1. To make such alterations in the Athenaeum building as will pro- 
vide enlarged accommodation for the department of circulation or 
lending library, represented by the Hartford Library Association, and 
to construct a new building for the Watkinson Library of Reference. 

2. To transfer the present Watkinson Library building to the 
Connecticut Historical Society, and to provide for the repayment by 
that society, or in their behalf, of the sum (about $5,000) received from 
the Watkinson Fund. 

Plans for the proposed alterations and for a new building have been 
procured by the Trustees of the Watkinson Library. The plan for 
alterations, which in its general features meets the approval of your 
Committees, may be briefly described as follows: (1) The whole lower 
floor of the Athenaeum building is to be arran.ued for the accommoda- 
tion of the Hartford Library Association, as the lending library and 
reading-room of the Public Library: easy communication between the 
three divisions of the building being provided for, and increased space 
for alcoves and library use being gained by removal of partitions in the 
north and south wings, and reconstruction of the stair-case iu the 
central division: (2j Similar communications to be effected between 
the three divisions of the second story, the whole of which is to be 
devoted to the Gallery of Art and the Historical Museum. 

3. Before taking any steps towards making these or other altera 
tions, it is necessary to obtain not onlj' the consent of all the institu- 
tions interested in the building, but (1) the surrender by the stock- 
holdei s of WadsM'orth Athenaeum of their art gallery to public use, and 
(2) the relinquishment by the Hartford Library Association of their 
exclusive right of use of that library. 

4. It is also necessary that the associated institutions should agree to 
entrust the general diiection of the Public Library and Gallery to a 
board of managers, in which board each of the institutions may be 
represented. 

The direction and control of the Watkinson Library must necessarily 
remain with the board of Trustees appointed under the will of the 
founder. Of this board the Governor of the State of Connecticut, 
the President of the Connecticut Historical Society, the President of 
Wadsworth Athenanim, the President of the Hartford Library Asso- 
ciation, the President of Trinity College, and the Mayor of the city of 
Hartford, are, ex officio, members. To these Trustees, with such 
addition to their number as may be determined on, the management of 
the Public Library may properly be committed. But the Hartford 
Library Association, when consenting to surrender to public use its 
large and valuable library and the income of its funds, has a right to 
insist that the control of these funds remain with the association or 
its representatives, and that the income shall not be expended without 



REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEES. 73 

their consent. The Committees suggest that the name and corporate 
existence of the Association may be perpetuated by the incorporation 
of a board of trustees to be elected by the members of the Association 
for the present year, to be known as Trustees of the Hartford Library 
Association: and from this board two of their number may be asso- 
ciated with the trustees of the Watliinson Library, in a general board 
of managers of the Public Library. 

More important than details of organization — which may be left for 
future consideration and mutual agreement — are the questions, what 
will be tlie cost of establishing and the annual expense of maintaining 
the free librarj^ and gallery, and how is the money to be provided? 

The cost of the proposed alterations of the building and of a new 
library buikling to contain at least 100,000 volumes, in accordance with 
the plans laid before your Committees, cannot safely be estimated at 
less than $75,000. For this we must appeal, in the first instance, to 
the liberality of the citizensof Hartford, and past experience has shown 
that the appeal will not be made in vain. That the iuslilutions we 
represent are the trustees of nearly half a million of dollars, the gift of 
private citizens to the city, is the best possible evidence that we shall 
not be left without the means of making this great educational agency 
a FREE SCHOOL of Science, literature, and art 

The annual expenses paid by the four associated institutions are now 
about $8,000. If the Hartford Library Association is opened to the 
public as a free lending library, the cost of its management and 
supervision and other contingent expenses would be nearly or quite 
doubled: and the same result would follow the free opening of the 
Art Gallery. For the reference libraries, the ratio of increase would 
be less. For the next five j'ears, the annual expenses of the propo.sed 
free library and gallery, in all departments, may be estimated at from 
$12,000 to $15,000. To defray these expenses — so that the entire 
income of the funds now held by the four institutions (and of such 
additional funds as may come by gifts or bequests) may be appropri- 
ated to the increase of the library and gallery — we must ask the help 
of the city: and your Committees recommend that application be made 
to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to exercise the power 
lately conferred bj' the General Assembly of laying a tax of one fifth of 
a mill on the grand list of the city, for establishing and maintaining the 
proposed free libifiry and gallery of Art. If this aid is granted, your 
Committees believe that our citizens will be much encouraged thereby 
to make liberal subscriptions toward the cost of alterations of the 
Alhenoeum and of a new building, and the grant would be regarded 
as an assurance that the city will continue to give its aid from year to 
year to the support of an institution established for the public good 
and dedicated to public use. 

In view of the facts and suggestions that have been presented, your 
Committees finally recommend: 

1. That committees be appointed by each of the four incorporated 
institutions here represented, to draw up articles of association and 
mutual agreement for establishing the Free Public Library, sub- 
stantially on the plan herein indicated: and conditioned on the con- 
tinued aid of the city, by an annual tax; and that these articles of 
agreement, if approved and adopted by the several corporations, shall 
be by them jointly executed. 

2. That a committee to consider the plan for alterations of the 
building and to procure estimates thereon, and a committee to solicit 

10 



74 EEPORT OP THE JOINT COMMITTEES. 

subscriptions for effecting these alterations and for the new building, 
shall be appointed; one m'-mber of each committee to be designated 
by each of the four associated institutions. 

3. That the Presidents of the four institutions be constituted a joint 
committee to petition the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to 
lay a tax for the establishment of the Public Library and Art Gallery. 

Haktford, June 29th, 1883. 

TTTTT T T A TVT 15 nriXTTj- ) Committce of the 

^^^^™?-^ ' f Stockholders of Wadsworth 

E. K. HUNT, j Athenteum. 

J- 5.^^!n?S? TRUMBULL, ) Committee of 

CnlRtES J kOADLY, \ ^he Conn. Historical Society. 

'i^r^,m»Y^^''^^'^^' I Committee of 

FRANcYs GOODWIN, ( The Watkinson Library. 

ni?f^7irfpT?T^7Q^n?4T^Tr I Committee of the 

CHAS. HOPKINb CLARK, ]■ Hnrtford Lihrarv Ass'n 
THEODORE LYMAN, ) ^^rttoid Library Ass n. 

Ifote. — The foregoing Report was prepared by the Hon. J. Ham- 
mond Trumbull, the Chairman of the Joint Committee. It was 
accepted, and substantially adopted, by the several organizations con- 
cerned. Ultimate action thereon was not completed, and the project 
of a closer union, under a common board of managers, is still pending, 
with the hope and some probability, that it will result in an accumula- 
tion of funds sufficient to maintain an institution which shall be a 
source of pride and great public benefit, especially to the citizens of 
Hartford. S. W. A. 



IX. 
ADDENDA. 



THE HARTFOKD LIBRARY COMPANY. 

It appears, from the annual report of the Hartford Young Men's 
Institute, published in 1846, that of the one hundred and sixty-three 
life members of that organization then in being, thirty-one were such 
by virtue of having been shareholders of the old Hartford Library 
Company. This is the first clue we get as to the number of those 
shareholders, when the Library Company became defunct. At the 
same date (1846), there were forty-eight " Atheneum " members of the 
Institute, and eighty-four life members of the Institute proper. 

In 1849, the Institute report gives the names of the then surviving 
members of the Hartford Library Company. They were : 

Thomas K. Brace, Thomas C. Perkins, 

Joab Brace, Kector of Christ Church, 

Amariah Erigham, Samuel Root, 

Daniel Buck, Harvey Seymour, 

Thomas M. Day, Erastus Smith, 

John E. Edwards, Elizabeth and Helena Talcott, 

William W. Ellsworth, Eliphalet Terry, 

William D. and Richard S. Ely, Isaac Toucey, 

Elizur Goodrich, Jr., John Warburton, 

Austin Kilbourn, James H. Wells, 

Laura Kingsbury, Thomas S. Williams. 

John Olmsted, 

Total, 23 Stockholders. 

By comparing the foregoing list with that of the charter members of 
said company, it will be seen that no one of the names in the former 
is contained in the latter; but some of the shareholders of 1849 will be 
reorganized as children, or heirs of charter members. Of these 
successors of 1849, it is not known that more than two, Thomas M. 
Day and Richard S. Ely, are alive to-day. 

S. W. A. 

(See I, ante.) 



76 THE HAETFOED LIBEAEY ASSOCIATION. 



THE HARTFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 

In what has heretofore been said (see page 11) concerning the Hart- 
ford Young Men's Institute, now the Hartford Library Association, 
no account has been given of the donations and bequests of which it 
has been made the recipient. The following list of the principal sums 
given is compiled from the annual reports of the institution for the 
past fifty years. It does not include life-membership fees, which were 
$50.00 each : 

1839. From sundry donors, $1,150.00 

1840. " " " ...... 550.00 

1844. " " " 881.25 

1846. " " •' 523.00 

1850. " '< .< 163.00 

1853. .' " " ...... 313.00 

1858. " David Watkinson (bequest), - . - . 1,000.00 

1862. " Sundry donors, 500.00 

1862. " Thomas S. Williams (bequest), - - - 500.00 

1867. " Roland Mather, 500.00 

1868. " Mrs. Thomas S. Williams (bequest), - - 500.00 
1868. " Roland Mather, 500.00 

1868. " Timothy M. Allyn, - - - - .- - 5,000.00 

1869. " Roland Mather, - 500.00 

1869. " James Goodwin, ...--. 500.00 

1869. " Tertius Wadsworth, ..... 500.00 

1869. " Charles Boswell, - 250.00 

1869. " Frank W. Cheney, 250.00 

1869. " George P. Bissell, ------ 250.00 

1869. " John B. Eldredge, 100.00 

1869. " James B. Hosmer, 100.00 

1869. " Mrs. Samuel Colt, - - - - 100.00 

1869. " From others, 150.00 

1870. " Joseph Pratt Allyn, 5,000.00 

1872. " Roland Mather, 10,000.00 

1873. " Subscribers to "Bailey Fund," - - - 650.00 
1878. " 51 subscribers to pay indebtedness, - - 1,280.00 

1880. " John W. Bliss (bequest), .... 2,500.00 

1881. " Charles H. Northam (bequest), - - - 5,000.00 

1882. " Robert Buel (bequest), ----- 1,000.00 
1887. " George D. Sargent (two bequests), - - - 6,400.00 



Total, - - $46,608.25 

To which are to be added the annual payments from the 
Watkinson Fund, 28 years, $500.00 per year, - - - 14,000.00 

Grand Total, $60,608.25 

The value of the invested funds on hand, June 1, 1889, was $39,- 
498.00, per Treasurer's Report. 

The Librarians have been : Henry M. Bailey, 1846-1868; Lucius M. 
Boltwood, 1868-1875 ; MiSs C. M. Hewins, since 1875. 



THE HARTFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 77 

Lectures. 

From 1838 to 1874 a series of public Lectures, annually, was one of 
the principal achievements of the Institute. The following table, giv- 
ing the names of lecturers, with dates of their appearance (assuming 
that all appointments were kept), has been prepared from the appoint- 
ment-lists, as published in the Annual Reports of the Institute: 

Hon. Henry Barnard, 1838 (2), 1847. 

Rev. Charles Brooks, 1838. 

Prof. Charles Davies, 1838. 

James A. Hillhouse, 1838. 

Rev. John Pierpont, 1838 (2), 1840 (2). 

Rev. Robert Turnbull, D.D.. 1839, 1846, 1847. 

Pres. Silas Totten, 1839, 1840, 1843. 

Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.D., 1839 (2), 1841, 1842, 1845. 

Prof. Denison Olmsted, 1839 (2), 1843, 1845 (6). 

Bishop George Burgess, 1839, 1840, 1842, 1844, 1845 (2). 

Hon. Alexander H. Everett, 1839 (2). 

Hon. Daniel D. Barnard, 1839. 

Rev. Watson Andrews, 1839. 

Hon. Wm. James Hamersley, 1839. 

Rev. Horace Bushnell, D.D., 1839, 1840, 1842 (2), 1844. 

Hon. Wm. N. Matson, 1839, 1840. 

Benj. Silliman, Sen., LL.D., 1839 (2), 1844 (6), 1851. 

Hon. Caleb Gushing, 1839, 1845. 

Rev. Hubbard Winslow, 1839. 

Mr. John P. Brace, 1839, 1840. 

Bishop Alonzo Potter, 1839, 1852. 

Rev. Luzerne Rae, 1840, 1841. 

Noah Porter, LL.D., 1840, 1843, 1845. 

Pres. Heman Humphrey, 1840 (2). 

Gov. Emory Washburn, 1840, 1842. 

Prof. Wm. A. Lamed, 1840. 

Samuel G. Goodrich (Peter Parley), 1840. 

J. V. C. Smith, M.D , 1840, 1841 (6). 

Hon. Richard H. Dana. 1840, 1843, 1844. 

Amariah Brigham, M.D., 1840. 

Hon. John Quincy Adams, 1840. 

Rev. Joel Hawes, D.D., 1840, 1846. 

Theodore D. Woolsey, LL.D., 1840. 

Prof. Jonathan Knight, M.D., 1840, 1844. 

Rev. John G. Palfrey, D.D., 1841. 

Hon. Wm. E. Robinson, 1841. 

Rev. Samuel H. Cox, D.D., 1841 (2). 

Joseph Lovering, LL.D., 1841. 

Rev. Wm. W. Andrews, 1841. 

Hon. Horace Mann, 1841, 1855. 

Hon. Benj. F. Butler (N. Y.), 1841. 

Elihu Burritt, A.M., 1841. 

Rev. John O. Choules, 1841 (2). 

Rev. Wm. B. Sprague, LL.D., 1842, 1844. 

Prof. Eleazar T. Fitch, 1842. 

Rev. Jeremiah S. Eaton. 1842. 

Col. Wm. L. Stone, 1842. 

Hon. George Bancroft, 1842. 



78 THE HAETFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 

Hon. Charles Eames, 1842. 

Rev. John Lord, LL.D., 1843 (6). 

Rev. Henry Giles, 1843, 1847, ISoO, 1851. 

Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843 (2). 1853, 1858, 1865, 1866 

Rev. Oliver E. Daggett, D.D., 1843, 1844, 1855. 

Hon. Josiah Quincy, 1843. 

Hon. Levi Woodbury, 1843. 

Benj. iSilliman. Jr., LL.D., 1843. 

Prof. John Brocklesby, 1844. 

William Cranston, Esq., 1844. 

Rev. George W. Bethune, 1844, 1847, 1855, 1856, 1859. 

Rev. Robert R. Raymond, 1844. 

Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D.D., 1844. 

Col. T. L. McKinney, 1844 (2). 

Rev. Orville Dewey, D.D., 1845, 1847. 

Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 1846, 1847, 1848. 

Hon. Isaac W. Stuart, 1846 (2), 1852. 

Rev. Walter Clarke, D.D., 1846, 1847. 

Rev. Joel T. Headlev, 1846. 

Rev. Mark Hopkins,"^D.D., 1847, 1850. 

Mr. J. E. Strong. 1847. 

Rev. Chas. W. Upham, 1847 (2). 

Rev. Joseph Harrington, 1847. 

Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, D.D., 1847. 

Hon. Lewis Cass, 1847. 

Park Benjamin, Esq., 1847. 

Hon. George P. Marsh, 1847. 

Bishop John Williams, 1848, 1850, 1853. 

Rev. John Wheeler, D.D., 1848. 

Hon. Joseph R. Chandler, 1848. 

George Brinley, Jr., 1848. 

Edwin P. Whipple, 1849, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1857, 1862. 

Hon. Tho. D'Arcy McGhee, 1849, 1851. 

Hon. Henry C. Deming, 1850, 1853. 

Rev. Joseph H. Towne, 1850. 

Rev. Thomas Starr King, 1850, 1851, 1853, 1856, 1860. 

Rev. Edwin H. Chapin,^D.D., 1850, 1851, 1859, 1860, 1864, 1865 (2). 

Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel, 1850 (4), 1851 (2), 1861 (3). 

Hon. Baj^ard Taylor, 1851, 1854, 1862. 

Hon. Henry B. Stanton, 1851. 

Henry N. Hudson, LL.D., 1851. 

Bishop Tho. M. Clark, 1851, 1852 (2), 1861. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, LL.D., 1851, 1856, 1858. 

John E. Warren, Esq., 1852. 

W. P. Atkinson, Esq., 1852. 

Rev. Nath. S. S. Beman, 1852. 

Hon. John P. Hale, 1852. 

John G. Saxe, LL.D., 1852, 1854. 

Gen. Sam. Houston, 1852. 

Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D.D., 1852. 

John Neal, Esq., 1853. 

Wm. H. Fry, Esq., 1853. 

Rev. Theodore Parker, 1853. 

Francis T. Russell, Esq., 1854. 

George Wm. Curtis, Esq., 1854, 1855, 1857, 1859, 1861, 1862, 1868, 

Josiah G. Holland, M.D., 1854, 1860, 1865. 



THE HARTFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 79 

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, 1854, 1856, 1858, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1864, 
1868, 1869, 1870, 1873 (2). 

J. H. Wain Wright. Esq., 1855. 

AVm. C. Prime. LL.D.. 1855. 

Hon. Josiah Quincv, Jr., 1855. 

George H. Clark, Esq., 1855, 1856, 1857 (2). 

Rev. Wm. H. Milburn, 1855, 1864, 1865. 

Wendell Phillips, Esq., 1856, 1857, 1859, 1860, 1865 (2), 1867 (3), 
1868, 1869, 1870. 

Rev. Edward A. Washburn, D.D., 1857 (2). 

Francis H. Underwood, LL.D., 1857. 

Rev. Ellas L. Magoon, D.D., 1857. 

Isaac I. Hayes, M.D., 1858. 

Brownlee Brown, Esq., 1858. 

James Russell Lowt41, LL.D., 1858. 

Bishop Frederick D. Huntington, 1858, 1860, 1862. 

Rev. Nath. J. Burton, D.D., 1858. 

George Vandenhoff, A.M., 1859 (2), 1861 (3), 1863 (6), 1864 (2), 1865, 
1866, 1867 (3), 1868. 

Donald G. Mitchell, LL.D., 1859. 

Col. Tho. Wentworth Higginson, 1860. 

Rev. Andrew L. Stone, 1861. 

Hon. James T. Brady, 1861. 

Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, 1861. 

Pres. Samuel Eliott, 1862. 

Hon. Edward Everett, 1861. 

Rev. John F. Mines, 1862. 

Hon. Horace Greeley, 1863. 

John B. Gouirh, 1863 (3), 1864 (2), 1866, 1867, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873. 

Hon. George Stillman Hillard, 1863. 

Rev. Wm. C. Richards, Ph.D., 1864(2). 

James R. Gilmore, Esq., 1865. 

Hon. Schuyler Colfax, 1866. 

Henry Vincent, Esq., 1866, 1867 (4), 1868, 1869. 

Hon. Samuel S. Cox, 1867. 

Frank Hall, Esq., 1H67. 

James E. Murdoch, Esq., 1867. 

Rev. Robert L. Collier, 1868. 

Samuel L. Clemens, Esq., 1869, 1871. 

Miss Kate Field, 1869. 

William Parsons, Esq., 1869. 

James Parton, Esq., 1870. 

Rev. Robert Collyer, 1870, 1872. 

Prof. William H. Brewer, 1871. 

Prof. William P. Trowbridge, 1871. 

Prof. Chester L. Lyman, 1871. 

Prof. Thomas R. Lounsbury, 1871. 

Prof. Addison E. Verrill, 1871. 

Prof. Sidney I. Smith, 1871. 

Prof. Daniel C. Eaton, 1871. 

President Daniel C. Gilman, 1871. 

Hon. Daniel Dougherty, 1871. 

Rev. John Hall. D.D., 1871. 

Miss Anna E. Dickinson, 1871. 

George MacDonald, 1872. 

Francis Bret Harte, Esq., 1873. 



80 THE HARTFORD ARTS UNION. 

John Brougliam, Esq., 1873. 
Prof. Richard A. Proctor, 1873. 
Thomas Nast, 1873. 

If the foregoing announcements of lectures, as originally published 
in advance, were all performed — and if an addition thereof, which the 
writer has made, be correct — then the whole number of lecturers who 
appeared in Hartford, under the auspices of the Young Men's Insti- 
tute, was one hundred and sixty; and tlie lectures given reach the 
astonishing number of three hundred and fifty-eight. In addition to 
these, a number of concerts, operatic, and other entertainments were 
given under the same management during the later years of the 
foregoing series. 

THE HARTFORD ARTS UNION. 

It has been suggested to the writer that the organization having the 
above title was in some way connected with the Young Men's Institute; 
but a somewhat careful investigation, which he has made, fails to 
establish such a fact. The Hartford Arts Union, organized in 1849, 
and incorporated in 1851, was rather a rival than a coadjutor of the 
Institute. Its rooms and library were under the American Hall, and 
its principal operations were limited to the production of an annual 
series of public lectures. Some account of these would be interesting, 
but it would not fall within the scope of the present undertaking. 
The organization was maintained until 1861, when it seems to have 
become dissolved. 

THE HARTFORD LIKEAN [lINN^AN ?] BOTANIC ASSOCIATION. 

This was incorporated in 1825; the charter members having been: 
Nathan Ruggles, John M. Niles, Ward Woodbridge, Henry Seymour, 
Henry Hudson, Sam. G. Chaffee, and David Watkinson. It was 
allowed to have a capital stock of $25,000, and was authorized to estab- 
lish a botanic garden, nursery, green-houses, hot-houses, etc., and, in 
general, to foster studies in botanical science. What it accomplished, 
and how long its active existence was maintained, it would be inter- 
esting to learn ; but, while it may have been, to some extent, an ally of 
the Society of Natural History, this is not known to have been the 
case ; and hence, further inquiry concerning it will not be pursued at 
the present lime. S. W. A. 



X. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SOCIETY. 

By Frank B. Gay. 

The following list of the publications by the Connecticut Historical 
Society, or under its patronage, is believed to be full and complete 
enough for the demands of this pamphlet. It does not contain, 
however, various appeals for specific purposes, notices, or reports 
of committees printed but not published. Neither does it seem 
necessary to mention all newspaper accounts of meetings or of 
important donations, or other general allusions to the Society and 
its rooms or work. These may be found in the Hartford, New 
Haven, and other papers of the State, and in such magazines as the 
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Historical Magazine, 
Lossing's American Historical Record, and others. The exceptions 
to this rule are few, and included in the list for obvious reasons. 
Many more of interest could easily be given, such as the "Notice" 
for the first meeting in 1839 {Hartford Courant, May 29, 1839); action 
on the deaths of Hon. Thomas Day {Courant and Times, March 
3, 1855) and Dr. Robbins {Courant, Sept. 20, 1856, U col.); account 
of the first field-day meeting of the Society, at Mystic {Courant, 
June 6, 1888, 1 col.); and the partial bibliography of the Society (ten 
titles) by A. P. C. Griffin {Mag. of Am. Hist., v. 14, p. 108). It is not 
thought necessary to attempt the mention of the titles and present 
location of all articles read before the Society. However valuable 
such additions would be, the task of hunting them out from private 
desks, newspapers, magazines, and books, where they appear fre- 
quently without the author's name, cannot be undertaken by the 
present compiler. 

[Note : The numbers starred (*) are in print and can be supplied by the 
librarian.] 

I. Act op Incorporation and the Constitution of the Connecti- 

cut Historical Society, with an Address to the Public. Hart- 
ford, 1825. pp. 14, (1). 8vo. 

II. The Charter of Incorporation and By-laws of the Connecti- 

cut Historical Society, together with a list of the officers, 

and an address to the public. Hartford, 1839. pp. 11. 8vo. 

The Charter is that of 1825, with the Act passed by the General Assembly, 

May session, 1839, renewing it. Tlie Coustitutiou of 1825 is here remodeled 

and forms the By-laws. 

III. Historical Celebration, Tuesday, April 21, 1840. Order of 

Exercises at the Centre Church, n. t. p. pp. (4). 
The programme contains the words of original hymns written for the 
occasion by Kev. William T. Bacon, Mrs. Lydia H. Sigouruey, Dr. Edward 

11 (81) 



82 CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

P. Terry, and Miss Cornelia L. Tutbill. Tbis programme was drawn up bj' 
Henry Barnard, and articles on tbe proposed celebration had appeared in his 
Cotniecticut Coitanon School Jottntal, vol. II., pp. 100, 180. 

IV. [Celebration by the Connecticut Historical Society of 

the 200th Anniversary of the Adoption of the First Constitu- 
tion of Connecticut, at Hartford, April 21, 1840. In the Hait- 
ford Daily Ccmrant, vol. 4, April 22-May 2, 1840; 18 columns. 
Prepared by the chairman of Committee of Arrangements 
(Henry Barnard).] 
The most extended account in print of the celebration. Neither the above 

nor the Address on the occa?iou by Noah Webster, LL.D., has ever been 

put in more permanent form. 

V. Reminiscences of the last Sixty-five Years, commencing 

with the Battle of Lexington. Also Sketches of his own Life 

and Times. By E. S. Thomas 2 vols. Hartford, 

1840. pp. 300; 300. 12mo. 
In the appendix to vol. II. (pp. 26:^294), is given an account of the celebra- 
tion by the Societj', in 1840, of the adoption of the first constitution of Con- 
necticut, with extracts from the speeches. 

VI. An Account of the Connecticut Historical Society. By 

Henry Barnard 2d, Esq., Corresponding Secretary. (In 
American (Quarterly Register, vol. 13, 1841. pp. 284-292.) 
This contains the Act of the General Assembly passed at the May session, 
1839, renewing the Charter of 1825 ; extracts from the history and objects of 
the Society, with a circular to the clergymen of the State ; account of the 
celebration by the Societ}' of the adoption of the first constitution of Con- 
necticut, 1840 ; lists of members and officers. 

VII. * Historical Notices of Connecticut, published under the 

patronage of the Connecticut Histoiical Society. No. 1; con- 
taining Hartford in 1640. No. 2; containing Hartford and 
West Hartford. By ^Villiam S. Porter. Hartford, April, 
June, 1842. pp. 12; 13-48. 12mo. 
Contents. — Settlements; Purchase, Indian deed; Original proprietors and 
settlers ; Organization ; Original streets ; Original house lots ; Locations of 
first settlers ; Genealogies of families ; Divisions of the town ; Town roads ; 
Burying ground ; Settlers in Hartford, 1640-1700 ; Proprietors' votes ; West 
division, proprietors' lots ; Highways ; First settlers and locations. 

This publication, designed to be "issued monthly or as often as practi- 
cable," ended abruptly with the second number. 

VIII. *A Discourse on the Early Constitutional History op 

Connecticut, delivered before the Connecticut Historical 

Society, Hartford, May 17, 1843. By Leonard Bacon 

Hartford, 1843. pp. 24. 8vo. 
This discourse was originally prepared to be read in the Commemorative 

Constitution Exercises of 1840, in case of Dr. Webster's inability to be 

present. 

IX. *A Historical Discourse, delivered before the Connecticut 

Historical Society and the citizens of Hartford on the evening 
of the 26th day of December, 1843. By Thomas Day, Presi- 
dent of the Society and of Wadsworth Athenaeum. 

Hartford, 1844. pp. 36. 8vo. 
" Designed as an address to the members of the Society on the occasion of 
their taking possession of their rooms in the Wadsworth Atheuasum." It 
gives sketches of the Wadsworth family, the founding of the building, and a 
history of the title to the land on which it stands. 

X. The Correspondence and Miscellanies op the Hon. John 

Cotton Smith, LL.D With an Eulogy pronounced 



CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 83 

before the Connecticut Historical Society at New Haven, May 
27th, 1846. By the Rev. William W. Andrews. New York, 

1847. pp. 328. Svo. 

"After the followiua; eulogj- was pronounced, the author was requested 

.... to edit Gov. Smith's correspondence and papers. In consequence of 

that request, the original intention of publisliiug the eulogy by itself, under 

the direction of the Historical Society, was abandoned."— i''rom the Preface. 

XI. History op the Indians of Connecticut from the earliest 

known period to 1850. By John W. DeForest. Published 

with the sanction of the Connecticut Historical Society 

Hartford, 1851. pp. xxvi, 509. Folded map, and engravings. 
12mo. 
Keprinted at Hartford in 1852 and 1853 ; also, without change, at Albany 
in 1871. 

XII. [Address by the Hon. Henry C. Deming, on the occasion of 

the Presentation of Gen. Putnam's Sword to the Connecticut 

Historical Society, Jan. 19, 1859. (In the Daily Couraut, 

Jan. 20, 1859, 2| cols. ; on the same day in the Daily Times, 

2| cols.; Ecening Prens, 1 col. ; Evening Post, i col )] 

In the Life of Israel Putnam, by I. N. Tarbox, Bost., 1876, there are extracts 

from this address (pp. 75-77, 343-350), and it is referred to in the Celebration 

of the centennial anniversary of the Battle of Bunlier Hill, Bost., 1875, app. 

p. 167; and in Justin Winsor's Header's Handbook of the Am. Revolution, 

Bost., 1880, p. .53. The address was subsequently delivered at Putnam's 

grave in Brooklyn, Conn., June 18, 1860, but has never been reprinted. 

XIII. A Letter from the Rev. Thomas Hooker op Hartford, 

in Answer to the Complaints of Gov. Winthrop, of Massachu- 
setts, against Connecticut. From the first volume of the Col- 
lections of the Connecticut Historical Society, .... Hart- 
ford, 1859. pp. 18. Svo. 
Edited, with introduction and notes, by J. H. Trumbull, from the original, 
written in 1638, and now preserved in the Massachusetts archives. 

XIV. ^Collections op the Connecticut Historical Society. 

Vol. I. Hartford, 1860. pp. xii., (4), 332. Svo. 

Contentx. — Charters; By-laws; Otticers, 1859-60; Thomas Hooker's letter to 
Gov. Winthrop, 1638; Abstract of two sermons by T. Hooker, 1638, '39; Trial 
of Ezekiel Cheever before the New Haven Church, 1649; Letter from Gov. 
Winthrop, respecting the Charter of Connecticut, 1662; The people's right 
to election, by Gershom Bulkeley, 1689; Their Majesties' colony of Connecti- 
cut vindicated, 1694; Roger Wolcott's journal at the siege of Louisburg, 
1745; Connecticut officers at Louisburg; Papers relating to the Ticonderoga 
expedition, 1775; Major French's journal, 1776; Col. Daniel Putnam's letter 
relative to the battle of Bunker Hill, 1825; The public seal of Connecticut, 
by C. J. Hoadly; Correspondence with the British Government, 1755-1758. 

Dr. Hoadly rewrote the article on the Public Seal of Connecticut and pub- 
hshed it in the Register and Manual of Connecticut for 1889, pp. 438-441. 

XV. Report of a Committee op the Connecticut HistoricaJj 

Society, on a plan for enlarging the Society's building and 
establishing its connection with the Watkiuson Library of 
Reference. Presented, April 15, 1862, and printed by order 
of the Society. Hartford, 1862. pp.12. 8vo. 

XVI. The Origin of the Expedition against Ticonderoga, in 

1775. . A paper read before the Connecticut Historical Society, 
January 5, 1869, by J. H. Trumbull. Reprinted from the 
Hartford Daily Courant, January 9, 1869. Hartford, 1869. 
pp. 15. Svo. 



84 CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

XVII. Collections op the Connecticut Historical Society. 

vol. II. Hartford, 1870. pp. (4), 380. 8vo. 
Contevtft. — Oo the composition of Algonkin ideographical names, by J. Ham- 
mond Trumhull; Papers relatino^ to the controversy in the church in Hart- 
ford, l(»56-.59; Correspondence of Silas Deane, delegate to the Congress at 
Philadelphia, 1 774-76. 

XVIII. The Composition of Indian Geographical Names, illus- 

trated from the Algonkin Languages. By J. Hammond 
Trumbull, President of the CJonnecticut Historical Society. 
From the Conn. Historical Society's Collections, vol. II. 
Hartford, 1870. pp. 51, (4). 8vo. 

XIX. Some Helps for the Indians: A Catechism in the language 

of the Quiripi Indians of New Haven Colony, By the 
Rev. Abraham Pierson. Reprinted from the original edi- 
tion, Cambridge, 1658. With an introduction by J. Ham- 
mond Trumbull, LL.D., .... From the Collections of 
the Connecticut Historical Society, vol. III. Hartford, 
1873. pp. 11, [67]. 8vo. 

XX. [Collections op the Connecticut Historical Society. 

Vol. III.] 
This volume was to have contained Rev. A. Pierson's " Some helps for the 
Indians," Gershom Bulkeley's " Will and Doom," and extracts of letters from 
sundry ministers in Connecticut to Rev. Thomas Prince, of Boston, giving 
historical notices of their towns. While the volume was on the press in April, 
187.5, the printing office was consumed by fire and the entire edition destroyed; 
it has never been reprinted. One hundred copies of Pierson's " Helps " had 
been separately printed, and of " Will and Doom " one copy is in existence. 

XXI. Libraries. By William I. Fletcher. Wadsworth Athenaeum. 

— The Connecticut Historical Society. — Hartford Library 

Association. — Watkinson Library of Reference 

(In Memorial History of Hartford County. Boston, 1886. 
pp. 541-550.) 

XXII. * Diary op Thomas Robbins, D.D. 1796-1854. Printed for his 

nephew [Robbins Battel!]. Owned by the Connecticut 
Historical Society. In two volumes. Edited and an- 
notated by Increase N. Tarbox. Vol. 1. 1796-1825. Boston, 
1886. pp. vii, 1052. Vol. II. 1826-1854. Boston, 1887. 
pp. (1), 1131, portraits. 1. 8vo. 
Dr. Robbins' "Diary" contains many references to his library, now in the 
possession of the Society of which he was the first librarian, and of its trans- 
fer to the Society through the agency of Dr. Barnard. 

XXIII. A Pleasant Jaunt. The Connecticut Historical Society's 

Field Day at Deerfield. (In the Springfield, Mass., Daily 
Union, vol. 26, June 5, 1889, li cols.) 
Other accounts of this, the first meeting of the Society outside of the State, 
appear in the Hartford Daily Courant, Times, and Post, of June 4th and 5th. 

XXIV. * Birthday op the State op Connecticut. Celebration 

of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the 
Adoption of the First Constitution of the State of Con- 
necticut, by the Connecticut Historical Society and the 
Towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield, Thursday, 
January 24th, A.D. 1889. Hartford, 1889. pp. 98. 8vo. 
Full reports of these meetings, with additional details, can be found in the 
Hartford daily papers of the 24th and 25th of January. 



OFFICEKS AND MEMBERS 



Connecticut Historical Society. 



1825-1889. 



(85) 



Names starred (*) are of deceased members. The "Residence" is 
that of the date of election. 

The Charter provides that the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and 
the Judge of the Superior Court, shall each be ex officio a member of 
the Historical Society. The List herewith presented does not contain 
the names of such members. 

Should errors or omissions be discovered, whether as to names or 
dates, in the following Table, it is earnestly requested that informa- 
tion thereof be given to the Secretary of the Society, to the end that 
the required corrections may be made. 



(86) 



XI. 
CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



OFFICERS 1889-90. 



President. 
Hon. bobbins BATTELL, 

Vice-Presidents. 
JOHN W. STEDMAN, . 
FRANKLIN B. DEXTER, 
Hon. JOHN P. C. MATHER, 
LOUIS N. MIDDLEBROOK, 
Hon. CHARLES B. ANDREWS, 
Hon. JAMES PHELPS, . 
Hon. DWIGHT LOOMIS, 

JONATHAN F. MORRIS, 
FRANK B. GAY, 
CHARLES J. HOADLY, LL.D 
FRANK B. GAY, 
ROWLAND SWIFT, 



NbRFOLK. 

Hartford. 

New Haven. 

New London. 

Bridgeport. 

Litchfield. 

Essex. 

rockville. 

Treasurer. 

Recording Secretary. 

Corresponding Secretary. 

Librarian. 

Auditor. 



Membership Committee. 
CHARLES J. HOADLY, LL.D., FRANK F. STARR, 
JONATHAN F. MORRIS, ROWLAND SWIFT, 

SHERMAN W. ADAMS, JOHN W. STEDMAN, 

J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL, LL.D., L.H.D. 

Library Committee. 
CHARLES J. HOADLY, LL.D., SAMUEL HART, D.D., 
FRANK B. GAY. 

Publication Committee. 

JOHN W. STEDMAN, HENRY BARNARD, LL.D., L.H.D. . 

FORREST MORGAN. 



PATRICK HENRY WOODWARD, 
CHARLES B. WHITING, 
FRANK FARNSWORTH STARR, 

(87) 



Committee on Monthly Papers. 



88 



CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



CHARTER MEMBERS, MAY, 1825. 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



Date op Death. 



*Battell, Joseph, 

*Brownell, Thomas Church 

*Burhans, Daniel, 

*Cooley, William, 

*Dana, Samuel Whittlesey, 

*Day, Thomas, 

*Doane, George Washington.... 
*Ellsworth, William Wolcott,... 

*Foot, Samuel Augustus 

*Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins, . . 

*Gould, James 

*Hall, John, 

*Hubbard, Thomas, 

*Huntington, Samuel Howard,. 

*Johnson, Nathan, 

*Mitchell, Walter, 

*01mstead, Hawley, 

*Peters, John Samuel, 

*Pitkin, Timothy, 

*Robbins, Thomas, 

*Sherman, Roger Minot, ... 

*Sumner, George, 

*Todd, Eli 

*Toucey, Isaac, 

*Trumbull, Benjamin, 

*Trumbull, John, 

*Welle8, Martin 

*Wheaton, Nathaniel Sheldon,.. 

*Williams, Thomas Scott, 

*Williams, William Trumbull, . 
*Woodward, Samuel Bayard,... 



Norfolk, 

Hartford, 

Newtown, 

East Hartford, 

Middletown, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Cheshire, 

Hartford, 

Litchfield, 

Ellington, 

New Haven, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

New Haven, 

Hebron, 

Farmington, 

East Windsor, 

Fairfield, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Colchester, 

Hartford, 

Wethersfield, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Lebanon, 

Wethersfield, 



Nov. 30 

Jan. 13 

Dec. 30 

Jan. 10 

July 21 
March 1 

April 27 

Jan, 15 

Sept. 15 

Sept. 9 

May 1 1 

Oct. 1 

June 16 

Feb. 4 

Oct. 12 

July 29 

Dec. 3 
March 30 

Dec. 18 

Sept. 13 

Dec. 30 

Feb. 20 

Nov. 17 

July 30 

June 14 

May 10 

Jan. 18 
March 18 

Dec. 15 

Dec. 16 

Jan. 3 



1841 
1865 
1853 
1839 
1830 
1855 
1859 
1868 
1846 
1851 
1838 
1847 
1838 
1880 
1852 
1849 
1868 
1858 
1847 
1856 
1844 
1855 
1833 
1869 
1850 
1831 
1863 
1862 
1861 
1839 
1850 



CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



89 



CHARTER MEMBERS, MAT, 1839. 



NAMES. 



Residence. 



*Bacon Epaphroditus Cliampion,.. Litchfield, 

*Bacon, Leonard \ New Haven, 

Barnard, Henry, 2d Hartford, 

*Boardman, David Sherman, New Milford, 

*Brownell, Thomas Church, 1 Hartford, 

*Bulkley, George Rose i Hartford, 

*Butler, Thomas Belden, Norwalk, 

*Davies, Charles, Hartford, 

*Day, Thomas, Hartford, 

*Ellsworth, William Wolcott, Hartford, 

*Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins, j Hartford, 

*Goodwin, Nathaniel, j Hartford, 

*Herrick, Edward Claudius 1 New Haven, 

*Hinman, Royal Ralph, 1 Hartford, 



*Hodges, Elkanah H., 

*Hosmer, Charles, 

*Huntington, Samuel Howard, 

*Johnson, Nathan, 

*Judson, Andrew T., 

*Kingsley, James Luce, 

*Mitchell, Walter, 

*01mstead, Hawley, 

*Peters, John Samuel, 

Porter, Noah, Jr. , 

*Rohbins, Thomas, 

♦Rockwell, John Arnold, j Norwich, 

*Sherman, Roger Minot Fairfield, 



Date op Death. 



Jan. 11, 1845 
Dec. 24, 1881 



Torrington, 
Hartford, 
Hartford, 
Hartford, 
Canterbury, 
New Haven, 
Hartford , 
New Haven, 
Hebron, 
New Milford, 
Rochester, Mass 



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*Smith, Erastus 

*Toucey, Isaac, 

*Waldo, Loren Pinckney, 

*Welles, Martin 

*Williams, William Trumbull,. . . 



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Lebanon, 



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Datk of Death. 

Allea, Jeremiah Mervin, 

Bacon, Leonard H.,t 

Bates, Albert Carlos, 

Battell, Robbins 

Boardman, William Francis Joseph, 

*Bolles, James G.,t March 29, 1871 

*Boswell, Charles,t Oct. 3,1884 

*Browu, Roswell.f March 18, 1877 

*Butler, Albert W.,t March 5,1858 

Case, Newton, f 

Chittenden, Henry A.,f 

Clark, George Henry, S.T.D., 

Cleveland, Edmund Janes, 

*Day, Albert,! Nov. 10, 1876 

Day, John Calvin, 

*Dixon, James,f March 27, 1873 

*Fox, Gurdon.t Sept. 12, 1852 

*Geer, Elihu,t March 27, 1887 

Goodwin, James Junius, , 

Greene, Jacob L. , 

*Hamilton, Silas B. ,f 

*Hammond, Andrew G Aug. 26, 1867 

Hayden, Jabez Haskell, 

*Hills, Ellery,t Jan. 9,1870 

Hills, Jonas Coolidge 

Huntington, Joseph S 

Hyde, Ephraim Henry, Jr. , 

Judson, Curtis,f 

*Lyman, Christopher C.,t May 28, 1883 

Lyman, Theodore, 

Morris, Jonathan Flynt, 

*Nichols, Cyprian,f Aug. 18, 1853 

*01msted, John,f Jan. 25, 1873 

*Roberts, Waterman.f Nov. 9, 1857 

*Smith, Thomas,! -A-pril 4, 1882 

Starr, Frank Farnsworth, 

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CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 99 

Date op Death. 

Swift, Rowland, 

Terry, James, Jr 

*Terry, Stephen, April 23, 1889 

Tiffany, Edwin D. ,t 

Trumbull, James Hammond, LL.D., L.H.D., 

*Trumbull, Joseph, f Aug. 4, 1861 

Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, Rev., 

*Wadsworth, Daniel, f July 28, 1848 

Wainwright, Wm. A. M., M.D., 

*Warburton, John,t Nov. 21, 1861 

Ward, William A.,t. 

Warner, Charles Dudley, 

*Watkinson, Robert, f June 10, 1867 

Welles, Edgar Thaddeus, 

Wells, Edward W., 

Wheeler, Richard A 

* Williams, Thomas Scott, t Dec. 15,1861 

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PRESENT MEMBERS. 



NAMES. 



Adams, Sherman Wolcott, Hon., 

Allen, Bennett Rowland 

Allen, Jabez Samuel, 

Allen, Jeremiah Mervin, 

Alton, Charles D., M.D 

Andrews, Edward Warren, Rev., 

At wood, Eugene F., Rev., 

Barbour, Lucius A., 

Barnard, Henry, LL.D., L.H.D.,. 

Bates, Albert Carlos, 

Battell, Robbins, Hon., 

Balterson, James Goodwin, 

Bill, Henry, Hon 

Boardman, Wm. Francis Joseph, 

Bowen, Clarence Winthrop, 

Brainard, Leverelt, 

Brinley, George P., 

Brown, Frederick S 

Burnbam, Roderick H., 

Chapman, Charles Richard, Hon., 

Clark, Charles Hopkins 

Clark, George Henry, S.T.D., . . . 
Cleveland, Edward Spicer, Hon., 

Cleveland, Edmund Janes, 

Cone, James Brewster 

Cornwall, Horace 

Cothren, William 

Day, John Calvin, 

Deming, Lucius Parman, Hon., . 
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Prof 

Fenn, .John Roberts, 

Ferguson, Henry. Rev 

Fisher, Geo. Park, S.T.D., LL.D. 

Fletcher, William L , 

Fuller, Horace S., M.D 

Gay, Frank Butler, 

Gay, Julius 

Geer, Everett S. , 

Gillette, Arthur L., Rev., 

Goodwin, Francis, Rev . 

Goodwin, James Junius 

Goodwin, Joseph Olcott 

Goslee, VVilliam Sumner, Hon., . 

Gowdy, Francis, 

Greene, Jacob L., 



Residence. 



Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Broad Brook, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Wethersfield, 

Bloomfield, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

East Granby, 

Norfolk, 

Hartford, 

Norwich, 

Hartford, 

Woodstock, 

Hartford, 

Newington, 

Hartford, 

Bloomfield, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Woodburj% 

Hartford, 

New Haven, 

New Haven, 

West Hartford, 

Hartford, 

New Haven, 

Amherst, Mass., 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Farmington, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

East Hartford, 

Glastonbury, 

East Windsor, 

Hartford, 



Date op Admission. 



Nov. 2 

Oct. 9 

Oct. 1 

April 3 

Nov. 18 

Nov. 5 

Dec. 8 

April 6 
May, 

July 2 

Oct. 4 



March 


5, 


1889 


May 


29, 


1888 


May 


2, 


1882 


March 


5, 


1889 


May 


8 


1877 


April 


2 


18f:'9 


Dec. 


8 


1872 


Dec. 


1 


1885 


May 


25. 


1875 


Mav 


n. 


1864 


Nov. 


5, 


1889 


Nov. 


9, 


1886 


Dec. 


2 


1884 


June 


2 


1874 


Nov. 


9 


1852 


Nov. 


2 


1875 


Dec. 


3 


1889 


Nov. 


7, 


1882 


Nov. 


5 


1889 


June 


8 


1884 


May 


7 


1889 


Dec. 


12 


1876 


April 


6 


1886 


Dec. 


4 


1888 


Nov. 


1 


1887 


Oct. 


7 


1889 


July 


2 


1889 


Dec. 


12 


1876 


Feb. 


1 


1887 


June 


7 


1887 


May 


21, 


1872 


March 


5 


1889 


July 


1 


1878 



1875 

1888 
1889 
1889 
1888 
1889 
1889 
1886 
1889 
1889 
1870 



CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL BOCIETY. 
PRESENT MEMBERS. — Continued. 



113 



NAMES. 



Griswold, Rufus White, M.D.,. . . 

Gross, Charles Edward, 

Gross, William H., 

Hall, Joseph, 

Hart, Samuel, D.D 

Hartranft, Chester D., D.D 

Hatch, George E. , 

Hawley, Joseph Roswell, Hon., ... 
Hayden, Hezekiah Sidney, Hon.,. 

Haj'den, Jabez Haskell, 

Hills, Jonas Coolidge 

Hoadly, Charles Jeremy, LL.D.,.. 

Hooker, Edward B., M.D 

Hubbard, Stephen A 

Huntington, Joseph S 

Hyde, Alvan Pinney, 

Hyde, Ephraim Henry, Jr 

Kellogg, Allyn Stanley, 

Lacey, Rowland Bradley, 

Earned, Ellen D., 

Lee, William H., 

Lewis, John B. , M.D.,. . . 

Love, Wm. DeLoss, Jr., Rev., . . . 

Lyman, Theodore 

Lyon, Irving Whitall, M.D., 

Mather, Horace E 

Mather, John P. C, Hon., 

Mather, Roland,. 

Maxwell, Geoige, 

McCook, Jol)u"j., Rev 

McManus, Thomas, Hon., ....... 

Middiebrook, Louis N 

Morgan, Foirest 

Morgan, Junius Spencer,. . r 

Morris. John Emery, " 

Morris, Jonathan Flynt 

Moseley, Gilbert Gates, 

Nash, Charles S., Rev., 

Ney, John M. , . , 

Parker, Francis Hubert 

Patterson, D. Williains, 

Perkins, Frederick Beechcr 

Pitkin, Albert Palmer, 

Porter, Noah. S.T.D., LL.D...... 

Pratt. Lewellyn, D.D., 

Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles, S.T.D 
LL D. 

It 



Residence. 


Date op 


Admission. 


Rocky Hill, 


Oct. 


9. 


1888 


Hartford, 


July 


2, 


1889 


Hartford, 


Oct. 


9, 


1888 


Hartford, 


May 


8, 


1877 


Hartford, 


July 


6, 


1875 


Hartford, 


May 


7, 


1879 


Hartford, 


Feb. 


5, 


1889 


Hartford, 


]May 


5, 


1868 


Windsor, 


May 


7, 


1889 


Windsor Locks, 


Oct. 


1, 


1841 


Hartford, 


May 


26, 


1885 


Hartford, 


Nov. 


7, 


1854 


Hartford, 


Nov. 


13. 


1888 


Hartford, 


April 


3, 


1877 


Lyme, 


Feb. 


7, 


1854 


Hartford, 


June 


o 


1874 


Hartford, 


May 


7, 


1878 


Hartford, 


Oct. 


2, 


188a 


Bridgeport, 


July 


2, 


188t) 


Thompson, 


Oct. 


4, 


1870 


Hartford, 


July 


2, 


1889 


Hartford, 


July 


2, 


1889 


Hartford, 


April 


6, 


188& 


PLartford, 


April 


6, 


1880 


Hartford, 


April 


6, 


1886 


Hartford, 


Dec. 


1. 


1885 


New London, 


Oct. 


4. 


1864 


Hartford, 


Nov. 


5, 


1844 


Rockville, 


Oct. 


1, 


1889 


Hartford, 


May 


■ 7, 


1889 


Hartford, 


Oct. 


2 


1877 


Bridgeport, 


Nov. 


7, 


1882 


Hartford, 


May 


4, 


1886 


London, Eng., 


Dec. 


6, 


1843 


Hartford, 


Nov. 


5, 


1889 


Hartford, 


March 


7, 


1871 


Hartford, 


Nov. 


1, 


1881 


East Hartford, 


]\ray 


7, 


1889 


Hartford, 


Oct. 


1, 


1889 


Hartford, 


April 


6. 


1886 


Newark Valley, 


June 


3, 


1862 


N. Y., 








San Francisco, 


Oct. 


6, 


1857 


Cal., 








Hartford, 


Oct. 


1, 


1889 


New Haven, 


May, 




18o9 


Norwich, 


Nov. 


1, 


1887 


Hartford, 


Dec. 


15, 


1846 



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PRESENT MEMBERS. — Continued. 



NAMES. 



Besidence. 



Date op Admission. 



Rathbun, Julius G 

Reid, Lewis Hubbard, Rev., 

Ricliards, Ellis G., 

Richardson, Ernest C, Rev., 

Robbins, Edward D., 

Robbius, Edward W 

Russell, Gurdon Wadsworth, M.D., 

Russell, Thomas W 

Sanford, Elias Benjamin, Rev.,. . . . 

Sanger, Marvin H., Hon., 

Sharpe, William Carvossa, 

Smith, Edward Alfred, Rev., 

Stanton, Lewis Elliott, 

Starkweather, Nathan, 

Starr, Frank Farnsworth, . 

Stearns, Charles Cummings, Rev.,. 
Stearns, Henry Putnam, M.D.,. . . . 

Stedman, John WoodhuU, 

Storrs, Melancthon, M.D 

Stoughton, John Alden, Hon., 

Stowe, Charles Edward, Rev., 

Swift, Rowland, 

Taylor, Henry W., 

Taylor, James Palmer, 

Taylor, Samuel, 

Terry, James, 

Trumbull, James Hammond, LL.D., 

L.H.D., 

Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, Rev.,... 
Wainwright, William Augustus 

Muhlenberg, M.D 

Walker, George Leon, S.T.D., 

Warner, Charles Dudley, L.H.D.,. 

Welles, Edgar Thaddeus 

Welles, Roger 

Wells, Edward W 

Whaples, Meigs Heywood, 

Wheeler, Richard A., Hon., 

Whiting, Charles B. , 

Williams, John, Rt. Rev., S.T.D., 

LL.D 

Woodward, Joseph G 

Woodward, Patrick Henry 

Woodward, Richard Warham, . 



Hartford, 

Hartford. 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Wethersfield, 

Kensington, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Westbrook, 

Canterbury, 

Seymour, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

3Iiddletown, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

East Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

New Haven, 

Hartford, 
Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartford, 

Hartfoid, 

Newington, 

Hartforfl. 

Hartford, 

Stoninaioa, 

Hartford, 

Middletown, 
Hartford, 
Hartford, 
Franklin, 



Jan. 3, 

Dec. 3, 

Oct. 1, 
March 5, 

June 5, 

April 5, 
April 30, 

Oct. 1, 

Feb. 1, 

Oct. 1, 

Dec. 2, 
March 5, 

May 6, 
May 
Nov. 
May 
April 
Oct. 
May 
April 
March 6 

June 3, 

Nov. 13, 

Nov. 5, 

Oct. 9, 

May 19, 



1889 
1889 



29 
7, 

29, 
5, 
5, 
8, 
6, 



1883 
1887 
1840 
1889 
1887 
1889 
1884 
1889 
1879 
1888 
1882 
1888 
1887 
1875 
1883 
1886 



1873 
1888 
1889 
1888 
1868 



Feb. 16, 1847 
Feb. 5, 1889 



April 

May 

Jan. 

Dec. 

April 

Oct. 

Nov. 

June 

April 



6, 1886 
8. 1883 

7, 1862 

2, 1884 
5, 1887 
7, 1845 
5, 1889 

3, 1873 
5, 1887 



Oct. 2, 1849 

July 2, 1889 

May 17. 1864 

Nov. 13, 1888 



CORRECTION. 

In giving the names (p. 20) of those, still living, who were Life 
Members or donors of the Hartford Young Men's Institute, in 1839, 
the following (which were omitted) should be added : Ezra Clark, Jr., 
Junius S. Morgan, Daniel Buck, and Roland Mather. 

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